What is recorded here
Immediately to the S of the road, overlooking the deserted settlement (LF010-078001-) to the NE. The church of 'Granardkilly' is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). A lease dated 1611 lists 'one ruinous church’ and ‘the hospital of St Patrick, called Granard-Kille…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF010-078002
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- Maker not stated on source page, graveyardsofscotland.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.nps.gov
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
- Granard Motte.png : Smcq Derivative work: Hogweard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2ManyCats4Me, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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