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Castle in ruins — Kilquire Lower

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In undulating pastureland, church (MA118-007----) 100m ESE. Mound of earth and stone, quarried in parts, with bawn wall (H 0.8m) enclosing subrectangular area (48.6m N-S; 43.1m E-W) (MA118-082001-). Two chamfered stones, probably part of a Romanesque arch, lie 15m to SE. Castle of MacJonyn More, at time of Division of Connaught, 1574 (Knox, 1908, 348). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 696. Date of upload: 18 December 2013

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