Mound in Ballinvallig, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In level pasture. The monument, which is depicted as an oval mound (c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on the 1924 OS 6-inch map, is now covered by a dense thicket of briars and bushes. A ringfort (LI036-141---) lies 40m to the SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI036-140

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