
What is recorded here
Barrow is a partially levelled earthen mound in County Cork, Ireland, measuring eighteen metres north-south and twelve metres east-west. It sits on a gentle south-facing slope among three other tumuli, forming a quiet burial landscape beside a cist and burial ground. The mound has been reduced by tillage, yet it still marks an old place where people laid others to rest beneath the soil.
In tillage, on gentle S-facing slope. One of a group of four tumuli (11819, 11820, 11821) in field to S of burial ground (14062) and cist (11935). Roughly circular earthen mound (18m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.3m); partially levelled.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Mound barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a small burial group, indicating a local funerary tradition and possible territorial or social organization in the landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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