Quarry in Assolas, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO023-154

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