Barrow

In pasture, on N-facing slope. More southerly of a pair of conjoined ring-barrows (11846). Circular area (diam. 5m) enclosed by fosse (D 0.16m) with external bank (H 0.16m). Bank conjoined NW->NE to bank of other ring-barrow. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Ring-barrow, Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Part of a pair of conjoined barrows, indicating a significant burial or ritual landscape.