What is recorded here
On the NW slope of Slievebawn. A possible cursus (L c. 270m) identified on OSI aerial (2005 ed.) consisting of two parallel banks or grass/heather/turf-covered walls (Wth 2-2.6m; H 0.2-0.8m) composed of schist and quartz (pers. comm. Ivor Kenny, 10 July 2014). The lower portion of the monument runs NW-SE for c. 160m…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW020-026
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- Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- liam murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
- liam murphy, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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