What is recorded here
Ash Hill and Abbeyfarm may share one forgotten dolmen, its stones swallowed by soil or misread by surveyors. The boundary between townlands cut across the site, splitting a single chamber into two records. Men placed those stones before writing existed, building a room for the dead or a marker for the living. Neither name nor function has survived the forgetting.
The precise location of a possible megalithic structure within the townland of Abbeyfarm has not been identified. Possible site annotated on OSi 6-inch map as "Dolmen Remains" in the townland of Abbeyfarm (SMR file). May be a duplicate site with LI047-022021- which is the 'Cromlech' in the adjoining townland of Ash Hill.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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