What is recorded here
At the northern end of a plateau in pasture. This is a circular cairn (diam. 25m; H c. 3m) now substantially grass-grown. There is an OS trigonometrical station on top of the cairn and a massive erratic has been incorporated in its northern end. The top of the cairn has been disturbed and there is a hole on the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-155
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- N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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