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Listed as a 'barrow' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'mound' in the RMP (1995) based on aerial photographic evidence (GSI O 90/91 (1973)). In forestry on a marked SE-facing mountain slope.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI006-011

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