What is recorded here

In reclaimed pasture, one of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/014-), N of a barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/026-; LI041-033----), an enclosure (LI041-031----) lies c. 80m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 1936 by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 175) as one of a cluster of barrows surveyed in the area, 20m N of a post-1700 field boundary. Monument clearly visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 7m) the Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached plan of survey from Ó Ríordáin (1936) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 July 2021

A Neolithic ditch barrow; part of a barrow cemetery, indicating early communal burial practices and social organisation in the region.

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