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No exact location. Long cist cemetery; seven extended burials, each 1.8m apart, long axis E-W, reported by Raftery (1941, 303).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 452.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 17 August 2012
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