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Tower — Caherweelder

Designed landscape — folly
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Incorporated into the enclosing wall of a cashel (GA103-086001-) at NNW is a later solid stone structure (H 3m; L 6.3m; Wth 2.8m; ) which may have acted as a lookout or may be a folly. It is marked and named ‘Tower’ on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933). (Westropp 1919, 178; McCaffrey 1952, 189, no. 77) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 January 2017

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