What is recorded here
Situated on rock outcrop in a fairly level landscape overlooking a W-E stream c. 10m to the S. This is a D-shaped area (max. dims 70m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an intermittently visible masonry wall at S, where there is an E-W road, and elsewhere by a scarp and outer drain or slight fosse. It contains 19th- and…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE017-009
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- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, www.echolive.ie
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.carrigallen.com
- Drumkeerin GAA (official club site publisher); individual photographer not named, drumkeeringaa.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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