What is recorded here
Towards the bottom of the S-facing slope at the SE end of a broad NW-SE ridge. The round tower (ext. diam. 6m; surviving H 3.6m) of Oran church (RO034-080001-) is composed of well-laid courses of limestone over a plinth (H 0.3m) (Crawford 1913; Barrow 1979; Lalor 1999, 213) and is 15m WSW of the surviving wall of the church. See the attached view from the W.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO034-080003
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- What survives
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