Structure in Ballykinvarga, County Clare

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What is recorded here

Within the NW quadrant of the interior of a cashel (CL009-059017-). This subrectangular strucuture (int. dims. 5.1m NE–SW; 3.25m NW–SE) has been built against the inner wall-face of the cashel. Its walls vary in width from 0.8m along the NE side to 1.3m on the SE side and 2m on the SW side. The cashel wall, which may have formed its NW wall, is 3.25m wide along here and is straight.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL009-059102

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