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In improved pasture, 50m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynamona and 345m NW of the Ballynamona River. A complex of contiguous barrows (LI032-289/290/291/292/293----) lie 335m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 230: AP 5/2018) as a…

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In improved pasture, 50m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynamona and 345m NW of the Ballynamona River. A complex of contiguous barrows (LI032-289/290/291/292/293----) lie 335m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 230: AP 5/2018) as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark to the immediate NW of a farmyard. Levelled monument is visible as a faint roughly oval-shaped cropmark (16m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 230 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 21 November 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI032-261

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