What is recorded here
On gently sloping boggy ground N of rocky inlet. Low grass-covered mound with stones protruding from it. According to local tradition Spanish soldiers buried here.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO153-003
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Jbuck78, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ben Rudiak-Gould, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Theorlafitz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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