What is recorded here
No surface trace visible of Clonbeg Castle which belonged to the O'Carroll's (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 31). Modern farm buildings and silage pit have been built on the site of the castle. Depicted as a small rectangular castle orientated NE-SW with a small projecting tower on the NE wall of the building close to the the N angle of the castle which is standing in the W quadrant of a circular enclosure or earthen bawn (OF038-019002-) within a grove of trees on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map.
No surface trace visible of Clonbeg Castle which belonged to the O'Carroll's (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 31). Modern farm buildings and silage pit have been built on the site of the castle. Depicted as a small rectangular castle orientated NE-SW with a small projecting tower on the NE wall of the building close to the the N angle of the castle which is standing in the W quadrant of a circular enclosure or earthen…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF038-019001
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- Superchilum, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brian Shaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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