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Cloghalea

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What is recorded here

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). Destroyed by quarrying in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the surviving records indicate a circle of large stones set on end some 21 feet in diam. (Studia Hibernica 7, 142-5).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME020-009

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • William Ellison, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Martin Richard Phelan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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