What is recorded here

Mound in Kilnanooan is a mound in Kilnanooan, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the east-facing slope of the Rathcroghan ridge, lying just northwest of the centre of the stepped barrow called Flanagan's Fort. The low mound measures five metres across and rises only ten centimetres above the ground.

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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