What is recorded here
On a SE-facing slope, in improved pasture and 80m NE of a townland boundary with Pallas. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. One of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-249/250/251----); Enclosure (LI024-048----) and ‘Keating’s Well’ lie 25m to NE. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 158.3: AP 4/3678). Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2015 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 158.3
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 October 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a burial cluster. Its association with other monuments suggests a significant ceremonial or funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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