What is recorded here
Within the NE sector of a burial ground (GA125-050001-). Named ‘Hermitage’, in Roman script, on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch maps and recorded as being in ruins on the latter map. Described in the OS Letters as a 'small house (cell)' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 517). On inspection in August 1985, a…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA125-050003
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