Mound in Borrisbeg, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In marshy, level pasture, at the base of the western of two ridges running N-S. The view is limited to the flat area between the ridges. A heavily overgrown flat-topped, circular mound (diam. c. 20m; H 1m) identified during ASI fieldwork in 1987. The precise location of this monument within the townland is unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK012-070

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Maker not stated on source page, www.echolive.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Andy Ryan / 1803 Productions, credited by Kilkenny GAA, kilkennygaa.ie
Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie

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