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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In flat terrain, in a reclaimed field under pasture. Within a linear barrow cemetery which runs NE-SW (L c. 130m). Monument identified on Google Earth aerial imagery (Imagery Date: 2/20/2009). This ring-barrow (overall diam. 10.8m N-S; 11.2m E-W) consists of a low circular area (diam. 5.2m N-S; 5.4m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.06m) with slight traces of an outer bank in the SE quadrant (Wth 2.05m at base; 0.9m at creast; H above int. 0.11m; H above ext. 0.06m). Other ring-barrows in the cemetery include TS065-073001-; TS065-073002- and TS065-073003- which lie 58m, 50m and 26m to the SW respectively, TS065-073005- lies 60m to the NE and TS065-073006- and TS065-073007- lie 45m and 67m to the ENE respectively. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 December 2013
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, part of a linear cemetery arrangement; such monuments are significant for understanding prehistoric burial practices and territorial organisation in Ireland.

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