What is recorded here
Roughly triangular area projecting E into Atlantic. Westropp (1914,-16, 98) noted foundations of walled rampart acrosss neck and says that 12 years prior to his visit 'it had a straight, massive wall of large, thin slabs ofdry stone, about 6ft high. This is 161 to 164 ft long (inside and out) and from 18 to 21 ft…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO151-042
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- Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dailymail.co.uk
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, global-geography.org
- onview, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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