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Situated on a low knoll with steep slopes to the N and E. Circular earthen mound (diam. 14m; H 3m) investigated in 1933 (Price 1934, 48-50). The mound is composed of earth and sand layers with an irregular circle of boulders around the core which was of mixed stones and blackened earth. There were no finds.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI043-001

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