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Mound in Barnacashel

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What is recorded here

Situated on a gentle W/NW-facing slope. Circular earth and stone mound (diam. 11m; H 1.5m) with a possible kerb (visible on the W edge) masked by field boulders. A number of clearance cairns c. 200m to the N appear recent.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI042-020

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Photo credits
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • DeirdreBurns, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Picture: officialwicklowgaa.ie
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Christian Pirkl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Billinger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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