What is recorded here
In level, improved pasture. Two ditch barrows (TS066-081001-; TS066-081002-) are located c. 34m and c. 4.5m to the NNE and WSW respectively. An oval area (dims. 5m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) defined by the remains of very shallow fosse (Wth 2.05m; D 0.2m) from S-W-NNE. The interior is 0.1m lower than the external ground level and has been levelled out across the SE sector where it falls very gradually into the fosse. It is visible on a aerial photograph (ref. OS 2437/6) as a sub-circular anomaly.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with a burial tradition involving ditches and mounds, common in Ireland during this period for elite or ceremonial interments.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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