What is recorded here
This is the record for a monument identified from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 (see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100; the Ballyhoura Hills Project reference number LI022: Bruff 86: AP 4/3700).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 14 August 2012
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with funerary practices in the Ballyhoura Hills region. Its identification from aerial photographs highlights the value of remote sensing in uncovering prehistoric burial monuments.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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