What is recorded here
Situated on a hillock in undulating countryside. The monument, greatly ruined, consists of a mound 26m long, 7m wide and 0.75m high incorporating two lengths of gallery structure 7m apart. The mound has been extensively dug in the gap between both. In the western half of the mound the surviving gallery is 5.5m long…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV013-031
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, ru.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maker not stated on source page, nl.findagrave.com
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