What is recorded here

Barrow is a 12m circular ditch barrow in wet Limerick pasture, keeping company with two smaller barrows within a hundred metres. Cattle may have grazed it for centuries while people forgot the shape beneath the grass, but the aerial survey recovered its outline in 1986. It is the kind of place where ordinary farmland suddenly remembers that it was made for watching, mourning or marking the edge of a live region.

In improved, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 230m NW of a public road which also marks a townland boundary with Castlefarm. Ditch-barrows (LI032-272002-/03-)lie 33m to SE and 62m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 231.01: AP 5/2017) as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is clearly visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 12m) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 231.01 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 November 2020

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location within a cluster of similar barrows suggests a regional funerary or ritual landscape.

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