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Tumulus in Lackagh More

Castle, motte

What is recorded here

At the base of a slope in tillage, with a slight ridge to the NE. A ruined tower house (KD022-017----) stands c. 150m to the E, with a church (KD022-018----) and graveyard (KD022-018001-) just beyond to the ENE. An overgrown, circular, steep-sided, earthen mound (H. 4m; est. base diam. c. 35m ) with a concave summit (diam. 16m), is girdled by a shallow fosse (Wth. 2m) with traces of an outer bank.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD022-016

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  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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