What is recorded here
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). Much of the material to W was removed at various times in the past and in 1847, when in the course of excavation a large crater was dug into the top of the mound. This monument…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME020-017
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- William Ellison, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, nypost.com
- Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.rte.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, storage.googleapis.com
- John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.saintsandstones.net
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