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Burnt mound in Moyode

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On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland, overlooking a turlough to the SE. This low roughly circular grassed-over mound of burnt stone (diam. 4m; H 0.4m) is cut across from NW to SE by a livestock trackway. A field wall overlies it at N. There is a fulacht fia (GA096-138----) c. 55m to the SE. (Cody 1989, 161, no. 20) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 November 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA096-137

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