What is recorded here

Barrow is a seven-metre ditch barrow hidden in flat Limerick pasture, sitting one hundred metres from a ringfort and another barrow. It vanished from later satellite images, suggesting grass, rain or careless ploughing erased what Bruff photographed in 1986. The place is no longer a proud marker but a ghost in soil, remembered only through one aerial frame and the absence where it should still be.

In flat pasture 26m E of the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. The ring-barrow is 100m SW of a ringfort (LI024-252----) and 100m NNW of a ring-barrow (LI024-186----). The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 nor on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 44; AP 4/3672) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 7m). The ring-barrow is not visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018, but is visible on an earlier Google Earth image taken 25/03/2017). See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 44 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location near other ring-barrow and ringfort sites suggests it is part of a wider funerary and settlement landscape.

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