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Castle in Ballymooney

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Oval-shaped flat-topped mound (max H 3.50m, max W at top N-S c. 20m, 14mE-W, max basal dims N-S c. 31m, E-W c. 25m) situated in low lying area in N sector of graveyard and delimited by a wide shallow fosse. Steep sided at N and quarried at W side. Possible motte. Poorly preserved low square shaped motte (H 3.5m; top diam 14 - 20m; base diam 30m) located in the N sector of Annagharvey graveyard (OF018-017001-) enclosed by a wide flat bottomed fosse with no evidence of a bailey.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF018-017005

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Trenchspike, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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