What is recorded here
In wet pasture, in NE corner of field immediately W of a local road. This is the most S of 13 barrows (LI040-070001/013-) recorded within an area measuring 200m N-S x 250m E-W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Discovery Programme as a ring-barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2557) taken 03/11/1984. Outline of monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 10m) intersected at N and E by post-1700 field boundaries on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, part of a significant barrow group; its presence suggests a wider ritual or funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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