What is recorded here
This dual court tomb is sited on a low ridge. The structure is incorporated in an oval mound, aligned E-W, 23m long, 17.5m wide and 1.5m high. At W two facade-stones articulate with the S arm of a court of semicircular outline. The court at the E end of the cairn seems to have been of a more elongated design.…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV018-001
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- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- Maker not stated on source page, storage.googleapis.com
- Maker not stated on source page, cavangaa.ie
- Maker not stated on source page, dowego.ru
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, sketchfab.com
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