What is recorded here
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow Possible'. In pasture, on top of a gentle rise at N end of Inishmore Island in Lough Arrow. A roughly kidney-shaped area (22m NW-SE), indenting deeply at NE, enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 0.68m at top; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) and external…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-231
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- SE Keenan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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