Mound in Castlewarren, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

On a terrace on a SW-facing slope, in fairly poor pasture land. A low subrectangular mound (14.5m NE-SW; 5.5m NW-SE; H 0.8m), mainly of earth. The slope to the relatively flat top is well accentuated. A telegraph pole lies immediately to the NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK015-053

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