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Situated atop hillock with good views of surrounding countryside. Rathgarve church (WM003-068----) ruins stand in the centre of a D-shaped graveyard with possible medieval roadway running N-S forming E boundary of graveyard. A tower house (WM003-066----) and mill (WM003-066002-) stands 430m to the S with a wayside…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM003-068001
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, global-geography.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Steve & Jemma Copley on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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