Megalithic structure in Beatin, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

Carrigan (1905, 4, 246-7) notes a rock called Cluck-volly-eye-nawn - Ballyeyenawn Rock. O'Kelly (1969, 132) refers to 'a cromleac here which Carrigan records in his Notes as Cloch Bhaile Fhionnáin, the Ballyfinaun stone'. There is no local knowledge of the existence of this site and its exact location is unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK034-043

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