Barrow in Druming, County Longford

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What is recorded here

At the edge of a plantation of coniferous trees, c. 25m to the SSW of a rath (LF019-068001-). A low circular mound of earth and stone (diam. at base 6.4m; max. H 0.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.3m) with a wide, shallow internal fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m). There are causeways across the fosse at NNE, E and SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF019-068003

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