What is recorded here
Situated on a natural rise on the floodplains of the river located to the S of the site and site of medieval church (OF030-016----) to SE. Poorly preserved tower house (OF030-015----) constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with only portions of its N and W walls remaining with a later 18th century house…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF030-015001
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- Maker not stated on source page, ch.pinterest.com
- Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, ru.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, heritageireland.ie
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