What is recorded here
In undulating pasture, on top of a low ridge. Eroded remains of a circular flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 6m; H 0.3m) with a short section of the surrounding fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.1m) evident at SW. One of five barrows in the vicinity (SL038-011----; SL038-013----; SL038-014----; SL038-015----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
A Neolithic ditch barrow, c. 2500–2000 BCE; one of a small group indicating a ritual landscape of burial and commemoration.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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