What is recorded here
On flat pasture land with good extensive views. Irregular shaped rounded mound (base diam 30m; top diam 15m; H 4m) with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or external bank. There are a lot of loosely piled stones around the base of the mound which is probably a result of field clearance. No evidence of any man made features on this mound. Its irregular shape and varying steepness tends to suggest that this is a natural hill. According to local tradition this is the burial site of a local chieftain and the local landowner will not touch the site as a result. It may have been a natural hill which has been used as a burial site. On first edition of OS 6-inch map site is depicted as a possible landscape feature.
On flat pasture land with good extensive views. Irregular shaped rounded mound (base diam 30m; top diam 15m; H 4m) with no evidence of an enclosing fosse or external bank. There are a lot of loosely piled stones around the base of the mound which is probably a result of field clearance. No evidence of any man made features on this mound. Its irregular shape and varying steepness tends to suggest that this is a…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF016-025
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- Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dalenevada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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