What is recorded here
Situated at the bottom of a steep N-facing slope, at a junction with a gentler slope. A rectangular roofstone (dims. 2.2m x 1.7m; T 0.6m) is resting on a number of boulders. Gaulstown portal tomb (WA017-027----) is c. 8m to the SE and its cairn may have covered the cist. (Du Noyer 1864-6, 480; Atkins 1896, 71; Borlase…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA017-026
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- RTG, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, fi.pinterest.com
- Brendan Tobin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jamie O’Keeffe / Copper Post, Fenor GAA section, copper-post.beehiiv.com
- P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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