What is recorded here
The quarry in Oughtagh may have supplied sand for a job that began with a confident guess at how much was needed. The cart came back across the rough pasture for another load, carrying a worker whose guess had grown much more careful.
In rough pastureland overlooking bogland to the W. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pit.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA007-105
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