Farm buildings at the clachan/close at Turloughs Hill
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Farm buildings at the clachan/close at Turloughs Hill
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 16 Mar 2011
There are currently at least five farmhouses and associated buildings,as well as other houses grouped within the close or clachan. The pattern evolved during the Plantation period when Scottish planters were open to raids both by the dispossessed and by bandits. With "their fields" as Estyn Evans ("Mourne Country" p122) has it "scattered 'through-other'" these clachans are "like fossils from a vanished age".
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Image Location
Latitude
54.105104
Longitude
-5.919663