What is recorded here
In pasture, on level ground on top of a ridge. A roughly circular cairn (17m N-S; 16m E-W) of moss-covered limestone stones defined by a rocky scarp (ext. H 0.7m) all round apart from a short section at ENE where it is quarried away. The quarrying extends westwards into the interior for 14m to within 3m of the scarp…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL033-108
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Neville Goodman, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Neville Goodman, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.es
- Maker not stated on source page, www.wavy.com
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
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