What is recorded here
According to Berry, (1914, 23) Kinnafad castle (KD007-001----) was built c. 1462 to guard a ford on the River Boyne when '£40 was granted to Sir Robert Preston Lord of Gormanstown and Sir Thomas Plunket upon the county of Meath to raise the said castle ... and also that the four baronies of Meath next adjoining to the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD007-002
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Maker not stated on source page, secretireland.ie
- Douglas P. Bermingham, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, ca.pinterest.com
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