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Barrow

Barrow, embanked barrow
Barrow
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On SE-facing slope, in pasture. A barrow (LI024-197----) lies 150m to SW and two barrows (LI024-219-/-220----) lie 170m to SE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (19m N-S x 17m E-W) defined by the intermittent remains of a bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.55m) visible from NW-NNW-N, from ENE-E-S-SSW and at WSW, elsewhere reduced to a scarp. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped partially scrub covered earthwork on ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP 310, 37) taken 13/09/2002. Outline of degraded monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 July 2020
A Neolithic embanked barrow; part of a cluster of barrows in the area, indicating a significant ritual or burial landscape from the early farming communities in Ireland.

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