What is recorded here
At the base of an E-facing rocky slope, in rough pasture largely overgrown with hazel. Indicated and named 'Tobercolman' on the 1842 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. O’Curry (Comber 1997, 77) recorded it as dedicated to ‘St Colman of Bairé’ and recorded that in 1839 there was a memory of Stations being performed at it, but…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL005-127
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Matthew Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.ireland.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
- Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.jamesatruett.com
- Gordon Hatton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
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