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No surface remains visible, levelled monument was situated on a flat pastureland to the E of rathbeg bog. Depicted as a large circular enclosure or platform on first two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Depicted not as an antiquity but as a roughly oval-shaped grove of trees on the 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

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