What is recorded here
Internal diam. 9.5m. A small subcircular area enclosed by a grass-grown stone wall but truncated by a field fence along its W side. The wall survives to a height of .5m and a gap to the W is probably the entrance. It is situated on the NE slopes of Garvanagh Hill and surrounded by marshy rough pasture. The above…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG103-025
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- Maker not stated on source page, voicesfromthedawn.com
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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