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Mound in Kilnanooan

Mound

What is recorded here

On the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Just NW of the centre of the stepped barrow called Flanagan's Fort (RO022-056038-) is a low mound (diam. 5m; H 0.1m). (Knox 1914a, 23-4 fig. 9; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, Kilnanooan; Waddell 1983, 39-41; 1988, 12, No. 42) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic burial mound, likely dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, associated with the broader Rathcroghan royal site, indicating its potential significance in a ceremonial or funerary landscape.

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