What is recorded here
Situated on a steep N-facing slope which is furze covered, and falls away to a dried-up valley. A ring-barrow identified by Healy (1975, 1-19) as being double-banked. There are man-made terraces on the slope to the SW of the ring-barrow.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on 7 July 2018
A Neolithic ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, characterized by its double-banked structure. Such monuments are significant as they reflect early funerary and ritual practices in the Irish landscape.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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