What is recorded here
In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 15m N of a townland boundary with Coolbaun. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The eastern most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-309001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Monument identified by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service archaeologist in 2010 and described as a low profile circular-shaped mound (diam. 4.2m; H 0.5m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 0.9) and an outer bank (approx. Wth 2.2m; approx. H 0.4m) (SMR file). Forestry planted to W and N. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 October 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. It is part of a small group of burial monuments that reflect early communal burial practices in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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