Ballybeg West Carved Head

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The Hunt Museum
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Release Date
2018-08-23
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CC0 1.0
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In a flat pasture, c. 200m S of Awbeg River. Complex of ruined 13th-century monastic buildings comprising church with cloister on S side (W end of church in line with mid-point of cloister) and claustral ranges to S, W and E (see plan Shine 1993, 108). Complex renovated in late-medieval period, when 4-storey rectangular tower built against N end of W claustral range and tower inserted into W end of church. Late-medieval rectangular tower (CO017-059002-), c. 70m to N, and columbarium (CO017-059003-), c. 25m to SE, also part of monastic complex. CO017-059001