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Indicated — Casheltauna

Barrow — ring-barrow

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A Neolithic circular mound and fosse tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. This type of monument represents early communal burial practices and earthwork construction in the Irish Neolithic.

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What is recorded here

On a slight SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (diam. of top 9m; diam. of base 12m; H 0.3-0.6m) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3.2-3.3m; D 0.25m) and an earthen bank (Wth 3.7-4.2m; H 0.15m) which is best preserved (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.2m) N-E (max. ext. diam. 26m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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