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Barrow in Mountfox

Barrow, ring-barrow

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In reclaimed pasture 140m W the townland boundary with Ballygubba North. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 16m) defined by a scarp with fosse and outer bank truncated at S by drainage ditch running E-W. Levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of levelled ring-barrow (overall diam. c. 32m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages visible to the immediate N of a drainage ditch running E-W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI039-109

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Munster GAA Post Primary Schools; individual photographer not named, munster.gaa.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.goirishtours.com
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