What is recorded here
Ballyhire castle is located in a low-lying landscape, but only the base of a tower house (WX048-034----) survives. Archaeological testing (97E0357) identified an E-W bawn wall S of the castle, and while some cobbled surfaces were recorded no other structures were identified (O’Donovan 1998).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX048-034001
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- User Ali-oops on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · GFDL
- Ojsyork, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- DeFacto, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cozzmick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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