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In blanket bog, on W slopes Ballyrisode Hill, c. 200m N of main Schull-Goleen road. Isolated mine working; discovered 1854 by landowner Richard Hungerford; investigation of mine interior uncovered stone mining mauls and cache of twelve polished stone axes (Caulfield 1880, 341-2). Near-horizontal working driven 62 into…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO147-013
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- D.Camier, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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