Building in Doonflin Lower, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Listed in the SMP (1989) as a building (unlocated). Not in the RMP (1995). This record refers to a large building, possibly a castle, shown on the Down Survey maps (1656-58) for the Parish of Skreen in the barony of Tireragh. It is named ‘Mullaghgassan’ and ‘Mullegisan’ on the maps; the exact location is unknown but it may have been located in the SE part of what is now Doonflin Lower Td.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL012-104

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