What is recorded here

Cloghalea was a circle of large upright stones, twenty-one feet across, in County Meath. Quarrymen broke it for roadwork or building stone during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What remains is a gap where something old stood, perhaps a tomb, perhaps a marker for seasons or boundary. The stones are gone, but the shape of the loss is still visible in the land.

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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