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Cairn in Glendalough, County Waterford (WA002-028----)

Cairn, unclassified
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What is recorded here

Located on top of Laghtnafrankee Mountain. This is a cairn (dims. 8.7m E-W; 7m N-S; H 0.6m) supporting a trigonometric station. It has no visible kerbstones or other features.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA002-028

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Official monument number
WA002-028----
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Photo credits
  • Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Picture: Pinterest photograph
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Irishtree, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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