Pigeon House, dovecote in County Mayo

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What is recorded here

Map note: Pigeon House is recorded around Creevard, County Mayo, Ireland as a dovecote. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA112-093

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