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Cloghalea — Dowth

Stone circle

Why this matters

A local standing stone or piece of rock art; wider significance not recorded.

What is recorded here

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Classification uncertain - may have been a megalithic tomb or stone circle. Destroyed by quarrying in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the surviving records indicate a circle of large stones set on end some 21 feet in diam. (Studia Hibernica 7, 142-5).
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