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Mound in Knowth

Mound

What is recorded here

Small circular low mound visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP AHJ, 68, 71, 100; Stout 2005, 385-6). See attached Google Earth aerial photograph taken 12 November 2005.
Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the early to middle third millennium BCE. It is part of the larger Brú na Bóinne complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and represents significant prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape in Ireland.

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