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What is recorded here

Situated in a forest clearing W of the site of a large enclosure (DU025-021002-) planted with trees. It was described as an irregularly shaped granite boulder (H. 3m) which terminates in a point at the top (Healy 1975, 1-19) but is now prostrate across a modern trackway to the crest of the hill.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU025-021001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Joe King, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Alan James, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Picture: www.wanderersgaa.ie
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