What is recorded here
On a steep mountain slope on the northern spur of Mount Leinster. A similar curus monument (CW020-026----) is located c. 1.7km to the W-WNW in Knockendrane townland. It consists of two parallel banks (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.4m), 33m apart, aligned NNW-SSE, which is visible over 400m (Corlett 2014, 21). The banks are…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW020-027
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- Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.co.uk
- Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, paganplaces.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Vicente Fernández Rioja, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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