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Located on a SE-facing slope. An area of about 12 acres (c. 4.5 ha) contains relict field banks or silted drains creating small rectangular fields (dims c. 40m x c. 20m), some of which have cultivation ridges. Two house sites placed close together and defined by wall footings are identified at the W edge of the fields. The fields were probably associated with Raffin House, just to the N, which was depicted as roofed on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and was evident in 1984 as a rectangular area (ext. dims 15.7m N-S: 5.9m) defined by stone foundations (Wth 0.6m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME011-042

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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