Mound in Baskethill, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 217: AP 4/3715.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI023-170

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