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Located c. 30m W of the great mound and c. 20m S of Tomb 9. Four slab-lined burials were placed side by side, creating a small cemetery. The graves were lined with upright slabs and had stone bases as well as covering stones. They were generally aligned NE-SW with the heads at NE. Some of the cists (dims c. 1.8m x…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME019-030084
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- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Martin Richard Phelan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Tjp finn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Jonathan Billinger, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, ca.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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