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Barrow

Barrow, ditch barrow
Barrow
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In improved pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 10m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynagranagh, which follows the line of a public road. The southern-most of a cluster of four possible barrows (LI032-251001-/02-/03-/04-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 197.01: AP 4/3610) as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 197.01 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020
A Bronze Age ditch barrow; part of a possible barrow group, indicative of early funerary and ritual practices in the region.

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