What is recorded here
On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 430m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Barrow (LI032-240----) lies 130m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 226: AP 5/2015) as a suboval-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (31m ENE-WSW; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 226
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location on a floodplain suggests it may be part of a broader ritual landscape associated with riverine environments in the Irish Bronze Age.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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