What is recorded here
In rough grazing, on top of a hillock on Inch Island in Lough Gara. A D-shaped area (int. dims. 27m N-S), with a straight N side (L 26m), enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.3-2.3m; H 0.5m). External stone facing (H 0.2-0.6m) is evident all round with the largest stones along the W arc. The interior is flat with traces of lazy beds in the S half.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL047-002
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Inch IslandIslet · 164 ydCastle PointHeadland · 298 ydEnclosure in Inch IslandEnclosure · 576 ydCrow IslandIslet · 1068 ydRose PointHeadland · 1603 yd
Moygara CastleCastle · 2.2 miMoygara Castle (in Ruins)Bawn · 2.2 miSaint Aidan's Catholic ChurchChurch/chapel · 2.4 miRedhill HouseHunting/fishing lodge · 2.5 miToberaraghtHoly well · 3.0 miCurlew MountainsMountain / peak · 3.6 miSquare WoodForest · 4.4 mi
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4073628.jpg/250px-Castles_of_Connacht,_Moygara,_Sligo_(1)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4073628.jpg "Photo: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
Moygara CastleCastle · 2.2 mi_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4073636.jpg/250px-Castles_of_Connacht,_Moygara,_Sligo_(2)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4073636.jpg "Photo: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
Moygara Castle (in Ruins)Bawn · 2.2 mi
Saint Aidan's Catholic ChurchChurch/chapel · 2.4 mi
Redhill HouseHunting/fishing lodge · 2.5 mi
ToberaraghtHoly well · 3.0 mi
Curlew MountainsMountain / peak · 3.6 miSquare WoodForest · 4.4 miPictures: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Aiden Clarke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY 2.5
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