What is recorded here

Barrow is a submerged pond barrow hidden beneath Oileán na crú, where water filled the ancient chamber instead of leaving it open for the sky. The ridge holds ringforts nearby, suggesting people lived around the drowned place rather than forgetting it. Perhaps the pond is not an accident but a transformation, the barrow completing its shape by taking water into its center.

In reclaimed pasture close to the summit of a ridge (OD 680ft.) known locally as ‘Oileán na crú’. Ringforts (LI033-021/023----) 15m to N and 70m to NE respectively. Monument depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at SW by a trackway running NW-SE. Poorly preserved monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as an oval-shaped depression (dims. 6m NNE-SSW; 8m ESE-WNW) with traces of a possible bank from NNE-E. Described in 1960 as a; ‘Platform 30 feet (9m) in diameter; has 5 foot (1.5m) wide bank. A ditch 5 foot (1.5m) wide outside bank, and outside this ditch another 5 foot (1.5m) bank. Both banks and ditch have a 6 foot (1.6m) gap on the east side where there is a well marked entrance running onto a platform (O’Dwyer 1960, 115; Knockroe 53). Outline of circular-shaped depression enclosed by a bank visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 3 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 133/03, 04 taken 23/08/2000 and 353/7 taken 05/01/2003.

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