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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