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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In level grassland. Well-preserved roughly circular ring-barrow (29.6m N-S; 27.3m E-W) comprising a flat-topped central platform (diam. 14m; max. H 0.5m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. A number of large boulders abutting the N sector of the central platform are suggestive of a revetment. A gap (Wth 5.3m) in the bank at WNW could be original. A number of hawthorn bushes are growing on the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019
A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE, representing an early form of communal burial monument and significant for understanding prehistoric funerary practices in the region.

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Recorded monument

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