What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, 75m S of townland boundary with Raheennamadra, barrows (LI049-241001/002- and LI049-021----) lie 50m and 11m to the NW respectively. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site immediately E of a linear cropmark running N-S on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578, Site 255) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of circular-shaped cropmark visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its identification as a potential site indicates it may be part of a broader funerary or ritual landscape in the Mitchelstowndown East area.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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