Ballavarry Burial Mound
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Ballavarry Burial Mound is a
Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
burial mound in the parish of
Andreas Andreas ( el, Ἀνδρέας) is a name usually given to males in Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Denmark, Armenia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Finland, Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of B ...
on the
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. It is located by Ballavarry farm entrance on a low hill, a short distance from Andreas village. The mound is significant and survives to a height of 3m and a diameter of 15m. Although a burial urn was discovered during a 19th-century investigation of the mound, it has since been lost.


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