Clochan in Ballymooney, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Listed as a 'clochan' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'clochan' in the RMP (1995). On a steep W-facing slope overlooking a ravine. A field visit in 1989 failed to locate the clochan due to the area being heavily masked with bracken and gorse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI015-053

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