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This is the record for the pit excavated by Red Tobin (E3243) on the N11 road improvement scheme. A radiocarbon date places the pit in the early Neolithic period. (Tobin 2009f) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload; 17 January 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI031-096

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