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Knights Tower

Designed landscape, folly
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On upper W-facing slopes of Knockmaa, 285m WNW of a cairn (GA042-064----). A partially collapsed drystone-built structure, roughly U-shaped in plan and open towards W (N wall: L 13.7m, E wall: L 14m: S wall: L 9m). The double-faced walls appear to vary in thickness but are best preserved at S where they are up to 2.2m in height. The internal plan is completely obscured by collapsed stone. Another folly crowns the cairn to ESE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA042-063

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Photo credits
  • Enda O Flaherty, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Picture: en.wikipedia.org
  • David Cunniffe / Tuam Herald, Source publisher
  • ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • andrew mcmillan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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