What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, 54m W of a stream, 97m W of conifer plantation and 235m N of townland boundary with Garrison. At the N end of a line of barrows running N-S, ring-barrows (LI024-255----/-174002-) lie 40m E and 100m to SE. Not depicted on OS historical mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 84; AP 4/3678) as a small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a fosse. Outline of possible ditch barrow visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff Survey aerial image labelled Bruff 84
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 July 2020
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a linear arrangement of barrows, suggesting a ritual or funerary landscape of regional significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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