Burial in Breastagh, County Mayo

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What is recorded here

Located adjacent to an ogham stone (MA015-018001-). When the ogham stones was discovery in the late 1800s, it was prostrate on the ground, lying ‘over what seem to be grave’, visible as a ‘slight elevation marked by lines of stones, lying north and south’ (Ferguson 1870-9, 201-206). A cavity at the S end of the grave was identified as the socket in which the ogham stone once stood. No other details of this possible grave were recorded. There is a wedge tomb (MA015-017----) c. 300m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA015-018002

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