Turret LI031-117---- in Camas North

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What is recorded here

19th century folly belonging to Camas House located 240m to S. Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [NIAH] as follows; 'Freestanding square-plan two-stage turret, built c. 1820. Battlemented top to turret with carved copings. Roughly dressed limestone walls having dressed quoins and cut limestone stringcourses to upper stage. Loop openings. Located within rubble stone boundary wall to Camas House' (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21903128).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI031-117

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