What is recorded here
In level area of gently undulating pasture, at base of WNW-facing slope. Circular area (11m N-S; 9.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 3m; H 0.3m) awith external fosse (basal Wth 2m; overall Wth 10.45m; Dth 0.55m). Fosse in-filled at SW and SSE where former field boundary (long-axis WNW-ESE) was located; boundary now replaced by electric fence. Interior generally level and is incorporated into rest of field.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 31 October 2013
Neolithic ring-barrow, c. 3000–2500 BCE. This type of monument is significant as an early funerary structure, often associated with communal burial and ritual practices in prehistoric Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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