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Originally sited on Church Hill at the SE flank of Slieve Rushen, this tomb was excavated in 1992 in advance of quarrying operations and re-erected in the grounds of the Slieve Russell Hotel near Ballyconnell (see CV014-060----). It consists of a ruined gallery, some 6m long, aligned WSW-ENE, set in a low, round…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV010-005
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- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Hugh Russell / The Irish News, as credited in the article caption, www.irishnews.com
- Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
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