What is recorded here
From the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record record DOW006:008
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Photo credits
- Maker not stated on source page, www.johansens.com
- Ross, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rossographer, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Rossographer, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ca
- Sue Adair, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Picture: iStock
- Maker not stated on source page, www.ireland.com
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
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