Burial mound in Forelacka — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Thirty feet across and three metres high, the round mound sits at the valley base like a forgotten drum waiting to be struck. It has no ditch or outer bank, only bare earth piled against the mountain foot. Whoever built it wanted the dead hidden inside the hill rather than displayed behind a wall.

In the base of a valley running E-W in mountainous area. Circular round topped mound (H 3m; diam 19.2m) of earthen material with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or external bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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