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KILLINAPARSON MEGALITHIC TOMB
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KILLINAPARSON MEGALITHIC TOMB, COUNTY OFFALY
The site, in a clear-felled area of forest, lies just uphill from a stream on the W slope of
Barradoos Mountain which is on the N side of the Slieve Bloom range. A stone, 2.30m
long, 70cm thick and 70cm high, aligned N-S, seems to be set. Alongside to the W are
four prostrate stones measuring 1.50m to 2.10m in maximum dimension and a fifty
partly-buried. There may have been some form of megalithic structure here but its
nature is notknown. According to a local story the stones were dislodged by the soldiery
in 1798. (de Valera and O Nuallain 1972, 97, No. 1.).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of
County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive
Alcock and Bernie Moran.