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Lauaghnabra

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In pasture, located on a rise. This stone is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is indicted on the 1919 edition where it is named ‘Lauaghnabra’. A recumbent boulder (c. 1.3m NNE-SSW; c. 1.25m; ESE-WNW; T 0.3-0.6m) resting on a slight plinth of sod. A smaller boulder is located 6m to SSW. Towards the N end of the field there is a partly sod-covered small cairn /heap of field stones (1.4m E−W; 1.2m N−S; H 0.3m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA073-041

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Photo credits
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
  • Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA Club, via Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Duncan Grant, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
  • GAA.ie; photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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