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Stone trough in Ballyhack

Stone trough
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Inside the gate of the graveyard (WX044-018002-) is a granite trough (ext. dims 1m x 0.63m; H 0.25m; int. dims 0.82m x 0.44m; D 0.16m) which is coffin-shaped and child-sized, and might have been closed by the stone effigy (WX44-033002-) now in Arthurstown village c. 500m to the E. Unlike most sarcophagi it does not have drain-holes.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX044-018003

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Photo credits
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alanna Milbourne, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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