Cave in Sheepwalk, passage in County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

In the W sector of a rath (RO009-050001-). Visible in 1971 as a large opening between two very thick capstones which revealed a hollow (D c. 2m) used as a domestic rubbish dump. A flagstone c. 15m to the N may have been associated with it (Gannon 1972). It is no longer open.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO009-050002

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