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Cist in Kilgobbin

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Situated to the N of Kilgobbin Road. A cist was noted by Rev. George Goring Cuthbert in 1835. A human skeleton enclosed in a cist was unearthed in the immediate vicinity of Kilgobbin castle (Leslie 1934).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU025-017003

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