What is recorded here
In rough wet pasture, 85m W of townland boundary with Ballybeg, W of a group of barrows (LI040-049001; LI040-049003-/007-; LI040-049009-/011-) and enclosure (LI040-049008-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 040256) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2550) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline as a small circular cropmark. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (No. 040256) and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
A ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age; its location among a group of barrows suggests a ceremonial or funerary landscape of regional significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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