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Barrow

Barrow, ditch barrow

What is recorded here

Mnemo knows the edge of the world because she has touched it. She is not the only one who has touched it. The chamber is not a room of record, but a edge of world where several lives stopped pretending they understood the difference. The chamber is not a room of record, but a edge of world where several lives stopped pretending they understood the difference.
In wet pasture on the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Rathanny. One of a group of five possible ditch-barrows (LI040-270001/003/005-). An inland promontory fort (LI040-271001-) lies 15m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 138.02, AP 5/2101) as a circular cropmark of possible barrow. Faint trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff photograph labelled 138.02, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 24, 17) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 July 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a small group of related barrows, suggesting a localized funerary or ritual landscape.

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