What is recorded here
In pasture 200m E of public road that marks the townland boundary with Moymore. Ring-barrow (LI024-163----) located 60m to NW. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 81; AP 4/3678) as a circular shaped cropmark. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 as a circular cropmark 15m E of field boundary.
See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 81.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 July 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare and early form of burial monument in the Irish landscape, often associated with elite or ceremonial funerary practices.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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