What is recorded here
Site of 16th century O’Brien castle probably a tower house that was visited in 1979 and described as following: ‘Nothing is now visible of any structure or enclosure. The nearby field boundaries are modern field fences’ (SMR file). A dry stone wall forms the W boundary of the field in which the castle was situated. A…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM029-001
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Gerard Michael Lynch, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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