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Mound in Ballyburly

Mound

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What is recorded here

Earthwork marked on 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on earlier eds. No evidence now except for differential grass growth. On the E slope of Fahy hill, on good pasture land with standing stone (OF011-002----) located 30m to the NNW. All that survives of this destroyed site is a roughly circular area delineated by nettles and rough ground measuring 34m N-S x 30m E-W. Not marked on first two editions of OS 6-inch maps.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF011-003

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Recorded monument

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Douglas P.Bermingham, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Sarah777 at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Kenneth Gallery Smyth, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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