What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, 22m W of a stream and 153m N of townland boundary with Garrison. Ring-barrows (LI024-255----/-174001-) lie c.100m to N and ring-barrow (LI24-174003-) lies c. 40m to SW. Not depicted on OS historical mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 83; AP 4/3678) as a small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 7m) 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 83
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 July 2020
A ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location among other ring-barrows suggests it is part of a wider funerary landscape, indicating local ritual or burial practices of significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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