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Carn in Ferta

Cairn, unclassified
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What is recorded here

In rough hill pasture, on the NW side of a trackway (KE074-032----), on the NW-facing slope of Mangerton Mountain in Killarney National Park. An oval cairn (7.2m NW-SE; 6.8m NE-SW; H 0.45m) of compressed stones with a circular cairn (diam. 1.4m; H 0.78m) of loose stones on top. The monument is indicated on the E side of a trackway on the 1895 OS 6-inch map.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE074-015

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  • Britishfinance, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Espresso Addict, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Ben Gamble, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Gillfoto, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • bdolicki, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
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