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Barrow

Barrow, ditch barrow

What is recorded here

In wet pasture 80m W of a watercourse and 75m E of the townland boundary with Cloghast. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark on oblique aerial photography as a possible ditch-barrow. Visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 8m) on oblique aerial image (ASIAP). No surface remains visible on Google earth orthoimages See attached oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 October 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its identification from aerial photography highlights the value of such methods in uncovering previously unrecorded funerary monuments.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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