What is recorded here
At the bottom of a NW-facing slope and c. 40m S of a stream, in a slight fold on the E side of the Dartry Mountains with no houses in the vicinity. Circular cairn (diam. 3.5m ENE-WSW; 3.3m NNW-SSE; H 0.3-0.4m) with a collapsed centre (int. diam. 2.5m ENE-WSW; 2.2m NNW-SSE; D 0.4m-0.7m). The lintel from the entrance (Wth 0.4m) is visible at NNW. Sweat house (LE005-021----) is c. 60m to the N. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE005-020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kevin Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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