What is recorded here
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF016-057
Places near here
Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Offaly Independent; individual photographer not named, www.offalyindependent.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
- Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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