What is recorded here
Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of the Loughcrew Hills. Land Commission works during 1935 revealed two cists, which were largely destroyed before they could be investigated (E001127), but they were in a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a shallow fosse (Raftery 2011, 346). One cist was…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME009-060
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.abdn.ac.uk
- John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.irishmirror.ie
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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