What is recorded here
Situated in rough marshy land on the E bank of the Owenascaul river, this site was described by O'Connell (1939, 18) as 'two long mounds, some 60 feet long and 14 to 15 feet high, which almost came to a point'. Between the mounds were several stones which he thought might mark graves and the ground in the apex of the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE044-060
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.irishmirror.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, ogham.co
- Maker not stated on source page, www.thenorthernantiquarian.org
- Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- Ian Taylor, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ian Taylor, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Irina Guerin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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