What is recorded here

Nine barrows stand in wet Limerick pasture, the northernmost marked by a central hollow that may have held a burial. Ó Ríordáin excavated six in 1934, yet the ditch and soil have since swallowed the shape from modern images. The chamber is gone, but the row remains a quiet wound in the field, waiting for rain to reveal what memory has forgotten.

In wet pasture 40m W of a stream and 270m W of the townland boundary with Lissard. The most N of 9 barrows (LI049-072001/009-) that make up a barrow cemetery concentrated in an area measuring 240m N-S x 50m E-W. Six of the 9 barrows in this cemetery were excavated in 1934 by S. P. Ó Ríordáin (1936, 180-181). Site number VIII in Field C was excavated described as following; ‘Fig. 3 shows one field on the farm of Mr. P Condon in Ballymona Townland in which occurred nine barrows (“c” on map). No. VIII was the only barrow which showed at the centre a hollow which might be regarded as having held a burial’. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location maps and section of Barrow VIII taken from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 September 2021

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), part of a cemetery indicating organized funerary practices and social structure in a prehistoric community.

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