Bawn in Canbo, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

Canbo castle was described in the mid-17th century as `.... a fair Castle Bawn and stone house standeth' (Simington 1949, 165), but no visible surface trace of a bawn survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-084002

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