What is recorded here
In wet pasture, one of group of three barrows (LI049-029002/003-). Possible ditch-barrow (LI049-029003-) immediately to E. 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 245) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 4.5m) visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and 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 potential ditch-barrow suggests a ceremonial or funerary landscape of regional significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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