Mound in Ballymahon, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. This is depicted as a D-shaped hachured feature attached to an E-W field bank at N only on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular or D-shaped mound (diam. of base c. 20m; H c. 2m) which has many old quarries.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME041-012

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Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
James Allan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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