Troopers Mount, mound in County Offaly

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What is recorded here

On top of low natural rise in undulating countryside. Marked on the map as 'Trooper's Mount' this is the site of a poorly preserved earthen mound which has been partially destroyed by modern road which intersects the N side of the site. Flat topped mound (diam 9m N-S; ext. H 3m max. at S) with evidence of an inner fosse (Wth 5m) and external bank at W only. Bank and fosse may be a modern field boundary and not associated with the mound. However poor state of site preservation makes it difficult to be certain. Not marked on first two editions of 6-inch map and may have been formed during the construction of the nearby road. Depicted on 1912 edition of 6-inch map as a landscape feature.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF001-003

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