Gatehouse in Darver, County Louth

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What is recorded here

Darver castle (LH011-096----) occupies the NW side of a bawn (LH011-096001-), of which nothing else remains except the gatehouse. This is an ivy-covered structure with a barrel-vault over the entrance avenue to the castle, which would have been on the NE wall of the bawn.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH011-096002

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Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Dasmuy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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