What is recorded here
Roofless overgrown tower to NE of Rockborough House (CO070-110----). Square in plan(c. 5m square); core at ground floor level is solid with door in S wall which leads via a lintelled passage through E side to stairs in N wall which rises to 1st floor level. Door in N wall between ground and 1st floor opens into stairway. Remains of wide window opes in walls of 1st floor chamber.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO070-089
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Donald MacDonald, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- me, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Joebater at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gordon Hatton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ceoil at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- User Coil00 on en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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