Barrow in Croaghane, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered mound (H 0.65m; 17.3m N-S; 20.7m E-W) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m); the barrow has been truncated on its SE side by a field boundary.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI010-064003

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