What is recorded here
In wet pasture, on a floodplain 142m SW of the River Mahore, which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps, although the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map shows a small rectangular-shaped structure at this location, which is at the NW edge of a road running NE-SW. Monument…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI032-278
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- Maker not stated on source page, nigelborrington.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
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