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Mound in Portally

Mound

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What is recorded here

Situated on a S-facing slope. This is an overgrown circular mound (diam. of base 18m; diam. of top c. 11m; max. H 1.8m at S (downslope)) which merges into the natural slope at N, with slight traces of a bank enclosing the summit S-NW. It may be a fulacht fiadh.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA027-044

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Photo credits
  • David Hawgood, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • JackStonePGD, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Paul O'Farrell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Michael Dibb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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