What is recorded here

Barrow is a ring-barrow at the top of Mewlaghadooey Hill in County Roscommon, Ireland, lying within the line of a nearby hillfort. Its grass-covered mound still marks a chosen place on the slope, while a field bank has cut through part of the older shape. The barrow may have been a burial, a boundary or a gift to the land, but human hands clearly shaped it long before modern fields crossed it.

At the top of the S-facing slope of Mewlaghadooey Hill, and on the line of the perimeter of hillfort (RO027-014001-) at SE. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 30m; H 0.6-0.8m) separated by a berm (Wth 5-6.5m) from a slight outer bank (Wth c. 5m; H 0.1m) N-SE. It is overlain by a NW-SE field bank and does not survive SW of it. Ring-barrow (RO027-014004-) is c. 20m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Circular Neolithic or early Bronze Age ring-barrow, associated with a hillfort. Its location suggests a ceremonial or funerary significance within a defended landscape.

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