What is recorded here

Barrow is a degraded mound in County Mayo, Ireland, where local tradition still points to an ancient gravesite beneath the grass. The story is not a claim that the chamber is empty or that the mound is new; it is a reminder that burial, memory and landscape can continue to change after the people who made them have disappeared.

In gently undulating, improved pasture, crowning the top of a low hillock, which provides extensive views, with the Ox Mountains dominating the skyline to E and SE. This possible mound barrow is not shown on the 1837-8 and the 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a low, degraded circular mound (10m N-S; 9m E-W), with a flattish top, defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3m), which is barely distinguishable from the natural slope. A slab (Wth at least 0.55m; T 0.1m) protruding from the top of the mound at NE. The mound is known in local tradition as an ancient gravesite. There is a ringbarrow (MA031-069----) 150m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 July 2018

Mound barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE). Its location on a prominent hillock suggests it was a visible funerary monument, possibly associated with early burial practices in the region.

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