Ballavarry Burial Mound

{{Short description|Bronze Age site on the Isle of Man}}

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{{Infobox ancient site|name=Ballavarry Burial Mound|native_name_lang=gv|image=File:Ballavarry Burial Mound, Andreas - geograph.org.uk - 59515.jpg|caption=Ballavarry Burial Mound with Andreas Village in the background.|map_type=Isle of Man|location=Ballavarry Andreas|region=Isle of Man|epochs=Bronze Age|coordinates={{coord|54.3592|-4.457}}|map_caption=Map of the Isle of Man showing the location of Ballavarry Burial Mound|map={{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |coord=|54.0795|N|4.6822|W}}}}Ballavarry Burial Mound is a Bronze Age burial mound in the parish of Andreas on the Isle of Man. It is located by Ballavarry farm entrance on a low hill, a short distance from Andreas village.{{Cite web|last=Radcliffe|first=David|date=30 September 2005|title=SC4098 : Ballavarry Burial Mound, Andreas|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/59515|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113092431/http://www.geograph.org.uk:80/photo/59515 |archive-date=2007-11-13 |access-date=7 December 2020|website=Geograph}} The mound is significant and survives to a height of 3m and a diameter of 15m.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Ballavarry Burial Mound|url=https://www.imuseum.im/search/collections/places/mnh-site-196813.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415104115/https://www.imuseum.im/search/collections/places/mnh-site-196813.html |archive-date=2021-04-15 |access-date=7 December 2020|website=iMuseum}}

Although a burial urn was discovered during a 19th-century investigation of the mound, it has since been lost.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Andreas: A List of Manx Antiquities|url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/lma1930/as.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010702155744/http://www.isle-of-man.com:80/manxnotebook/fulltext/lma1930/as.htm |archive-date=2001-07-02 |access-date=7 December 2020|website=A Manx Notebook}}

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