What is recorded here
On grassy island just separated from SE corner of Dursey Island by narrow gorge; sod-covered remains of two rectangular buildings within a rectangular enclosure (23m N-S; 31.3m E-W). Garrisoned by O'Sullivan Beare in 1602 but taken by Carew before the fall of Dunboy (Healy 1988, 196).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO126-012001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Mat Tuck, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Benson Wills, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- colm, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Julian Paren, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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