Megalithic Structure, pit-burial in County Louth

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What is recorded here

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). of the OS 6-inch map. Tempest records a local tradition of an urn burial (OS Revision Name Book 230, 10). The area consists of outcropping natural rock with a number of fractured blocks close by.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH008-103

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