Mound in Knockbweeheen, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a steep NW-facing slope. The monument, which is depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a circular mound (diam. c. 10m), has been levelled. There is now no evident trace of the mound.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI028-004

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