What is recorded here

Barrow in County Carlow is a gentle mound with a small rounded summit, rising no more than two and a half metres above the ground. Local tradition claims a church bell was buried there to stop it being used for sacrilegious purposes, turning an ordinary burial mound into a place where human fear and imagination still circle.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Mound with gently sloping sides and small rounded summit (H 2-2.5m; base diam.. c. 16m). Formerly tree-covered. According to local tradition, bell from nearby church to SE (CW013-020----) buried here to prevent its use for sacrilegious purposes. (JKAS 1933, 303)

A Neolithic mound barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early funerary monument in the region.

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