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Barrow, ring-barrow
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At the edge of a plantation of coniferous trees, c. 25m to the SSW of a rath (LF019-068001-). A low circular mound of earth and stone (diam. at base 6.4m; max. H 0.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.3m) with a wide, shallow internal fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m). There are causeways across the fosse at NNE, E and SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 14 November 2011
Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its association with a nearby rath suggests a possible ritual or funerary landscape of significance in the local prehistoric settlement pattern.

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