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Cross-slab in Cloonown

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On a level landscape. A fragment of a cross-slab (dims 0.3m x 0.15m) was found in a wall of the old Roman Catholic church and is now preserved in the entrance porch of the new church (Fanning and O hEailidhe 1980, 13; Herity et al. 1997,116).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO055-003003

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