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Situated on a bluff overlooking the valley of the W-E Nanny River, with a WNW-ESE section of the stream c. 50m to the NE. The parish church of Ballymagarvey (ME032-009----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 45m E-W; c. 22m N-S at E to c. 30m N-S at W) defined by masonry walls and has headstones dating from c.…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME032-009001
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.booking.com
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.irishamericanmom.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.ru
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maker not stated on source page, irisharchaeology.org
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- C O'Flanagan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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