What is recorded here
In reclaimed pasture, a possible ditch-barrow (LI041-005----) lies 37m to the NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible ditch-barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2573) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of ring-ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its presence indicates prehistoric funerary practices in the Mitchelstowndown area, though its wider archaeological context remains poorly documented.
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- What survives
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