Tomb in Killuney, burial in County Galway

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In undulating pastureland. A table-tomb (L 2.3m, Wth 1.9m, H 0.5m) of mass-concrete construction with an illegible inscription and a cross on top is locally believed to be the burial place of a mother and son who died 'of the black death'. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA017-115

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