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In pasture 160m NW of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Baunteen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 34m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank transected at NW by a post-1700 field boundary.…

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In pasture 160m NW of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Baunteen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 34m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank transected at NW by a post-1700 field boundary. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 2m) mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m), truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW, intersected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Interior level and densely overgrown. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI050-002

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