Building in Ballagh, County Clare

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What is recorded here

On a crannog (CL016-069001-) in Lickeen Lough. The following details are from Crumlish (1996): this small roughly square-shaped drystone structure (3.8m N-S; 3.1m E-W; H 0.8m; wall Wth 0.5-0.6m) is built of flagstones. It has been partly demolished and rebuilt, particularly the N wall, part of the W wall and upper courses of the E wall. Rubble from it is strewn about it to the W and NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL016-069002

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