What is recorded here

Barrow is a partially levelled earthen mound in County Cork, Ireland, measuring 13 metres north-south and 10 metres east-west. It sits on a north-facing slope among four tumuli near a burial ground and cist. The mound has been reduced to 0.4 metres high, yet it still marks where people placed the dead beneath open ground.

In tillage, on N-facing slope. One of a group of four tumuli (11819, 11820, 11822) in field to S of burial ground (14062) and cist (11935). Roughly circular earthen mound (13m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.4m); 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 in the landscape.

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