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Bawn in Dunegan

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What is recorded here

Dunegan Castle (WM030-075----) ruins stands on the NE end of a long, steep-sided, narrow-topped ridge (106m/349ft OD) running roughly E-W, with extensive views to N, E and W. Depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Ballyloughloe parish map and described in the terrier of the map as, ‘there stands in Dunegan the ruines of a large castle and a large Bawne’ (NLI, MS 723-4). Annotated ‘Dunegan Old Castle’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a long rectangular-shaped ruin (long-axis E-W). No surface remains visible of large bawn belonging to Dunegan Castle that is described in the terrier of the Down Survey parish map.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM030-075001

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