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Knockauncarragh

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In pasture. Roughly circular, grass-covered mound (H c. 10m; diam. c. 100m). Named Knockauncarragh and depicted as hachured circular mound (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Power (1923, 171) translates name to 'Cnoc an Chatharach' - 'Hill of the Cathair'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO054-017

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