What is recorded here
In pasture, in the S quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-033001/005-), barrow (LI049-033004-) lies 19m to the W and a cremation pit (LI049-036----) lies 60m to the S. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Potential ditch-barrow identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580, Site 234) taken 03/11/1984. Trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 20011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage date 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 September 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location within a clustered monument group suggests ritual or funerary significance in a local burial landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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