What is recorded here
On a NE-facing slope in the saddle between Turlough Hill and Slievcarran with clear views of south Galway and northeast Clare. A long cairn crossing over the Galway/Clare border with most of it in Funshin More townland on the Galway side. An unusual long sinuous cairn (L c. 95m; Wth c. 6m) often comprising large…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA112-060
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- Thomas Thiele, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Luisteix, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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