Gatehouse in Cloonbigny, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. There are the foundations of a gateway (Wth of passage 3m; L 9m) straddling the centre of the NW wall of the bawn (RO050-019003-) of Cloonbigny tower house (RO050-019001-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO050-019005

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Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
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Maker not stated on source page, www.roscommonherald.ie
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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Mountbellew Golf Club; photographer not stated, Mountbellew Golf Club
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