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Barrow in Ballymurragh West

Barrow, ring-barrow

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In pasture, on the SSW-facing slope of a low hill. A circular area (12.3m N-S; 11.9m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.95m) with an external bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m). The fosse is waterlogged and covered by a stand of rushes. There are opposite causewayed entrances at E (Wth 2.6m) and at W (Wth 3m). A field boundary skirts the bank at N. The interior is level and covered by rough grazing with some rushes growing on its partially waterlogged surface.
In pasture, on the SSW-facing slope of a low hill. A circular area (12.3m N-S; 11.9m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.95m) with an external bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m). The fosse is waterlogged and covered by a stand of rushes. There are opposite causewayed entrances at E (Wth 2.6m) and at W (Wth 3m). A field boundary skirts the bank at N. The interior is level and covered by rough grazing with some…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI043-007

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • jonleebotany, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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