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Fortification in Shankill

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The Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register records that between 1257 and 1263 a murder was committed in the gate of Shankill (McNeill 1950, 112). This would suggest that the settlement was enclosed but no trace of the course of the defences survives. The fortification has not been precisely located. Revised upload on: 19 April 2018.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU026-052004

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