What is recorded here

In reclaimed pasture 45m E of a farm access road. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential ring-barrow on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000, 2553 Site No. 040291) taken 03/11/1984. Listed by Grogan (1989, Vol. 2, 232) as Gormanstown (Phillips) 4. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark truncated at NW by a linear field drain running NE-SW on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 26 May 2021

A Neolithic ditch barrow; its significance lies in its potential as a rare surviving example of early funerary architecture in the region.

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