What is recorded here
On a NW-facing slope of rising pasture with good views from S through W to N with Slieveardagh Hills to W. Depicted as 'Old Graveyard' on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, it consists of a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (int. diam. 64m E-W; 70m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (top Wth. 2.3-3m; base Wth…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS043-035
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- David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.gettyimages.com.au
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
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