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House in Eskerbaun

House, 17th century

What is recorded here

On low-lying ground close to a marsh which extends off to the S and E. The W gable (L 6m) and adjacent parts of the N and S walls of a house which had two storeys and an attic survives. It is now incorporated into a handball alley, which extends to the W, and no diagnostic features are visible, but it was part of the rounds of St Bridget's Well (RO048-108001-), c. 100m to the SSE and may have been the house known as 'Tigh Sean an Tobair' (Kelly 1907, 7).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO048-188

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  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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