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Locations

  • Children's Burial Grounds

    Children's Burial Grounds

    Many such sacred locations are located in the Skehana District.
  • Hedge Schools

    Hedge Schools

    No Catholic could teach, no building could serve.
  • Lime Kilns

    Lime Kilns

    Structures to heat limestone for use as mortar in construction.
  • Mass Paths

    Mass Paths

  • Menlough/Skehana GWS

    Menlough/Skehana GWS

    A brief history of Menlough-Skehana Group Water Scheme.
  • Rath Mor (Ceremonial Site)

    Rath Mor (Ceremonial Site)

    The Ó Mainnín Brehon Law Deed, 1584
  • Shops And Businesses.

    Shops And Businesses.

    The Skehana area had a broad range of business premises.
  • The Curraghaun at Windfield Demesne

    The Curraghaun at Windfield Demesne

    Part of The Jameson Estate
  • The Old Village Water Pump and Well

    The Old Village Water Pump and Well

  • The Parish of Killoscobe

    The Parish of Killoscobe

    Menlough & Skehana make up the parish of Killoscobe.
  • The Shrine at Tobertynan

    The Shrine at Tobertynan

    The de Stacpoole, Mounthazel connection.
  • Woodlawn House

    Woodlawn House

    Original home of of the Trench family which remains extant..
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  • Local Graveyards
  • Skehana Townlands.
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