What is recorded here
Situated on the low-lying flood plains of the river Brosna. Ruins of a simple rectangular church (OF014-040001-) built with irregularly coursed limestone blocks giving the masonry a cyclopean appearance often found on early medieval churches. A bronze bell and its shrine were found in the nearby river in 1849 and were…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF014-040002
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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