Mound in Calary Lower, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded the following 'In the townland of Lower Calry is a hill which the inhabitants call by the name of Knock Daee i.e. the Hill of David, and they say that it had a moate on the top, but no vestige of a moate remains now.' (O' Flanagan 1928, 80) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 28 November 2012

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI007-054

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