What is recorded here
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) with four adjacent mineshafts on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a SE-facing slope c. 800m from the beach at Bunmahon Bay, it is not visible at ground level.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA025-051
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Ballydowane CoveBeach / strand · 2.0 mi
Boatstrand BeachBeach / strand · 2.6 mi
Lime KilnVisitor information · 3.9 mi
Ballinageeragh DolmenArchaeological place · 4.2 mi
Dunhill CastleCastle · 4.3 mi
Castle (in ruins)Castle, tower house · 4.3 miPictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Veekrokki, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; ethics girl, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Philip Halling, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Alexander Redfern, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Philip Halling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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