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Mine in Knockaturnory

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Located on a NW-facing slope of Croughaun Hill. An L-shaped, man-made passage (total L c. 4m; Wth 1-1.4m; H 1-1.5m) is excavated through rock into the NE bank of a SE-NW stream. It curves around to the NW and begins to sink. There is no evidence of a spoil heap.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA007-088

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