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A castle of Mac Dermot Roe on the E shore of Lough Arrow, c. 30m from the lake. The remains of the three-storey fortified house (RO003-012----) survive at the SE angle of the bawn (int. dims. 28m E-W; 19m N-S), which lacks its W wall but which has fragments of a gatehouse on the S wall. The N and E bawn walls survive…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO003-012001
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- Daniel Waters, Co. Sligo, Ireland from Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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