What is recorded here
Levelled in 1964 after excavation by the OPW, the site lay on high ground close to the W bank of the River Kilcurry and consisted of a motte (diam. at base 15m, at top 8m, H 3m), and an oval bailey (c. 60m by 50m). The remains of a small mound to the SE of the motte were situated on the perimeter of the bailey,…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH004-053001
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- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Photographer not named in LMFM report, www.lmfm.ie
- Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.in
- Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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