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Burial Gd. (Disused)

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Burial Gd. (Disused) is a cist in Baurnadomeeny, County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a southwest-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area, with a standing stone nearby to the southwest. A low circular cairn of loosely piled boulders holds a large one by two metre stone in its southeast sector, which may be the cist capstone.
Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby standing stone (TN038-008) to the SW. A low circular cairn (TN038-007001) of loosely piled boulders with a large stone (1m x 2m) in the SE sector which may be the capstone of a cist (TN038-007002). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its association with a standing stone suggests ritual or funerary significance in a landscape marked by megalithic traditions.

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