What is recorded here
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
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-086002
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Jsilke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Joe Silke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ian Capper, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gareth James, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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