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Barrow, ring-barrow
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In pasture 75m N of the townland boundary with Plaukarauka. Ring-barrows (LI024-186/229----) located 180m to N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 42; AP 4/3673) as a circular cropmark. Outline of monument visible as a circular -shaped area (approx. diam. 12.5m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 42. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 July 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a wider group of ring-barrow monuments in the Bruff area, indicating early ceremonial or burial landscape use.

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