What is recorded here
Discovered during construction work relating to the Northern Motorway (Excavation Licence No. 98E0615). Orientated N-S and located on a high ridge overlooking the surrounding countryside. Composed of three features, a pit into which the cist stones were placed, the cist itself and a small horseshoe shaped cairn which…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH007-137
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Scollonp, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Maker not stated on source page, www.rte.ie
- GilPe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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