
What is recorded here
In improved pasture, 90m E of the Camoge River which also marks a townland boundary with Cahercorney. A ring-barrow (LI032-282----) lies 270m to WNW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 153: AP 4/3638), as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a small circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 12m) defined by a fosse, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 153.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 November 2020
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location near a river and another ring-barrow suggests it may be part of a wider ritual or burial landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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