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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

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.

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Recorded monument

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