What is recorded here
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). and delimited by a low dry-walled kerb, contained a curciform passage-tomb opening to NNE. Three recesses open off the large pear-shaped central chamber, 6.5m by 7.5m, now covered by a shell-concrete dome. Twelve structural stones bear megalithic art. Cemetery mound (ME033-028002-) and cists and pits (ME033-028004-) related to megalithic tomb. (Herity 1974, 253-4; Shee 1981, 220-2)
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME033-028001
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- C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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