What is recorded here
In wet pasture, one of a group of three barrows (LI049-029002/004-). Possible ditch-barrow (LI049-0290032) immediately to W. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Potential barrow identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2579, Site 246) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 4.5m) visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its association with a group of barrows and a possible ditch-barrow suggests a ritual or funerary landscape of local significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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