What is recorded here
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG079-031
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Photo credits
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.atlasobscura.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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