What is recorded here
A circular area (DG037-010001-) enclosed by a partly ruined stone wall, originally up to 2.45m wide. Between 5m and 8m outside this inner wall, settings of single stones seem to indicate a second wall which would have been integrated with sections of rock outcrop. The interior of the cashel is uneven. Towards the SE…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG037-010003
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- louise price, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.youtube.com
- Somerville, Boyle T. (Henry Boyle Townshend), 1863-1936, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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