What is recorded here
Situated in pasture at the summit of a low N-S drumlin ridge. A castle is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map at Loughill on the county map or Lowhill on the barony and parish maps of Drumreilly parish where it is represented as a house with a chimney. See this web-page accessed on 25/09/2019 downsurvey.tcd.ie.…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE030-009
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, heritageireland.ie
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.gettyimages.com
- Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
- Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Willie Donnellan / Leitrim Observer, www.leitrimobserver.ie
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