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Bawn in Mountgarrett

Bawn

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Located just off the crest of the N-facign slope of a N-S ridge. There is evidence of a bawn (dims. 35m E-W; c. 60m N-S) at Mountgarrett tower house (WX029-009----) which had surviving walls in 1839 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 1, 130) and is visible as low scarps to the SW of the tower house.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX029-009001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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