What is recorded here
Situated in a slight N-S valley with drumlins rising to the E and W. According to Shirley (1879, 160-1) Robert Maxwell, who had been chaplain to Henry Carew, first Viscount Faulkland and Lord Deputy of Ireland 1622-29 was the ancestor of Maxwell families at College Hall and Fellows Hall in Tynan parish, Co. Armagh and…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO009-059
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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