What is recorded here

One chamber, one roof, one edge. The chamber holds the chamberled facts. The roof repeats those facts in the exact shape requested. The edge leaves behind no discarded writing, no hidden file and no new claim.

On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 470m SW of a townland boundary with Milltown. Enclosure (LI032-284----) lies 10m to SW and enclosure (LI032-243----) lies 162m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 160.01: AP 4/3633) as a semi-circular-shaped cropmark which is cut by a field boundary and land drain running NW-SE across the SW edge. Monument visible as a suboval-shaped earthwork (35m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a broad fosse (Wth 7m) and truncated by a field boundary running NW-SE across the SW edge, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 160.01 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020

A ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its presence indicates a tradition of burial and ritual activity in the wetland landscape of the region.

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