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At the W end of a broad E-W hill in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), with land falling away S-N and wide views all around (less to E). Hachured and named ‘Carn’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1901, 289) as a conspicuous and…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL009-059029
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- Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
- Roger Diel, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Computer-made picture. It does not show this mountain top.
- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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