Mound MA093-107---- in Forthill

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What is recorded here

On the level top of a ridge, adjacent to a townland boundary in the NE corner of a rectangular pasture field. A roughly D-shaped mound (5.7m E-W; 3.2m N–S; H 0.7m at S, 1m at N) bordered on the straight N side by an E–W field ditch (Wth 2m) outside which is a field bank/townland boundary. The mound appears to be largely earthen but incorporates some stone. According to local tradition, it may have been used as a children’s burial ground, but no traces of graves or gravemarkers are now evident. It is obscured by gorse. A post and wire fence segregates it from the rest of the field.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA093-107

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