Barrow

In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a ridge. A low oval mound (dims. at base 6m N-S; 7.6m E-W; max. H 0.5m) surrounded by a shallow fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.1-0.6m). A low outer bank is visible in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3033162-3). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A Neolithic ring-barrow; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). It represents a type of funerary monument associated with collective burial practices and social organisation in prehistoric Britain and Ireland.