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Aghnaskeagh Cairn and Portal Tomb

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Aghnaskeagh comprises two Neolithic burial cairns situated 2.1 kilometres south of Slieve Foy on the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth, within the townland of Aghnaskeagh in Ballymascanlan civil parish, Barony of Lower Dundalk. The northern cairn is a portal tomb (dolmen), with two substantial portal stones standing 2.8 metres high and a back stone remaining, though the capstone has been lost. T...

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