Cist in Lugmore, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Located on top of Tallaght Hill. This is a roughly square, deep cist, defined by granite boulders (dims.2.1m N-S; 1.4m E-W; D 0.7m). Its displaced capstone lies W of the cist (dims. L 2.1m; Wth 1.4m). Traces of the original covering mound surround this cist (diam. c. 9m; H 1m; Healy 1974, 25).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU021-053

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