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On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 580m N of a townland boundary with Ballinlough. Ring-barrow (LI032-285----) lies 235m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff162: AP 4/3633) as a linear-shaped cropmark running…

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On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 580m N of a townland boundary with Ballinlough. Ring-barrow (LI032-285----) lies 235m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff162: AP 4/3633) as a linear-shaped cropmark running NNE-SSW for the most part and turning roughly N-S for a short distance at the N end. Levelled monument is visible as a linear-shaped cropmark (L 320m) running NNE-SSW and turning at the N end where it runs (L 110m) roughly N-S, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and as partially seen on Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 162.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI032-286

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.gettyimages.ca
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.gettyimages.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, evoke.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • No machine-readable author provided. Christian1965~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Knockane GAA Club website; individual photographer not stated, www.knockane.com
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