What is recorded here
In improved wet pasture, gently undulating due to former water activity. Very low profile circular area (diam. 4.5m) defined by remains of fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.13m), which is best defined W-NNW, and an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.13m; ext. H 0.05m) W-NNW and NE-E. Interior is grass covered and has a gentle S-facing slope. Identified as a ring-ditch on an aerial photograph (OS 2435/4). A possible ditch barrow (TS066-076001-) is c. 58m to E.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, characterized by a circular fosse and outer bank. Such monuments are significant as they represent early funerary and territorial markers in the Irish landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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