What is recorded here

Barrow is a 31-metre ring-barrow on the SW edge of a prominent elevated area overlooking a deep ravine, marking the juncture of Gleninsheen, Aillwee and Boloona. People may have built its earthen bank and internal fosse to claim that boundary or honour someone the land still remembers. Stone walls now run along its W and S banks, turning an ancient marker into a living townland edge.

On the SW edge of a prominent elevated area overlooking a deep ravine to the SW within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-) and at the juncture of three townlands Gleninsheen, Aillwee and Boloona. Listed as ‘Potential Site Air Photo’ in the RMP (1996). A ring-barrow (diam. c. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.3-1m) with traces of an internal fosse from ENE-SE and along the S and W (Wth 6m; max. D 0.9m), visible on OSi MapGenie aerial photographs (2012-2018). Walls built on its W and S banks serve as the townland boundaries with Ailwee and Boloona. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 21 February 2023

A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare funerary monument type in the region, often associated with early burial practices and landscape organisation.

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