What is recorded here

Ten metres of forgotten death lie buried in flat Limerick pasture, hiding beside the old Rathaniska ringfort. The barrow resisted every human eye until aircraft cameras cut through the grass in 1986, revealing a perfect circular ditch around a central mound. It is not that the barrow is small, but that living people keep forgetting dead people exist. The camera remembers what boot soles erase.

In flat pasture 65m E of the townland boundary with Ballyshoneen. Ring-barrow lies 90m NE of the ringfort (LI024-052----) known as ‘Rathaniska’ and 24m NNE of an enclosure (LI024-234----). The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but it is faintly visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 92; AP 4/3672) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. 10.3m) that consists of a central circular area surrounded by a fosse. The ring-barrow is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 92 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its association with a ringfort and enclosure suggests a ritual or funerary landscape of regional significance.

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