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Maeve's Cairn

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Maeve's Cairn
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Maeve's Cairn is an archaeological place in County Sligo, Ireland. It is a large flat-topped cairn on the summit of Knocknarea, measuring about 55 metres wide and 10 metres high. The structure dates to around 3000 BCE during the Neolithic period and remains the largest cairn in Ireland outside Brú na Bóinne in Meath.
Maeve's Cairn is recorded as a archaeological place in County Sligo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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