
What is recorded here
In rough pasture, 208m W of townland with Ballygreenan. One of a cluster of 3 barrows (LI039-044002/007-) with the closest barrow (LI039-044002-) 10m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 039147) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2544) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline. Cropmark of small circular-shaped earthwork visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2544) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 April 2021
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with a cluster of burial mounds indicating a significant funerary landscape. Its unrecorded status suggests potential for further archaeological investigation.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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