What is recorded here
In gently rolling farmland, some 4km to the NW of Portumna. Overgrown with thorn and bramble, this tomb has been used as a dump for field stones. The remains comprise a gallery (L 4m; Wth 1m), aligned approximately E-W, represented by three stones at N and two at S. Two outer-wall stones stand to the S of the gallery…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA117-041
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- Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com
- Maker not stated on source page, za.pinterest.com
- Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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