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Below HWM c. 10m N of a quay on E shore of the island, and c. 100m SE of its position as marked on OS 6-inch maps. Known locally as Tobar Cholmcille, the garbled OS version presumably having been 'taken...down from an islander with a bad cold' (Robinson 1985, 26-7). It consists of a natural smooth and deep (0.6m) cylindrical pothole (D 0.6m). I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA076-015

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