Cist, anomalous stone group in County Cork

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What is recorded here

In boggy ground, adjacent to stream. Known as '5 Kings Graves' (UCC). Named 'Cist' on 1940 OS 6-inch map. Five prostrate sandstone slabs, laid in a line (long axis NNW-SSE) with sides abutting resting on low sandstone blocks. Dimensions range from 0.9m x 0.5m to 1.05m x 0.45m, and all are subrectangular in shape. Grass-covered spread of stones surrounds the slabs.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO059-079

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