What is recorded here
In low-lying pasture cut by land drains and watercourses, to the immediate W of a stream and 195m NW of a townland boundary with Garrison. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Ditch-barrows (LI024-174001-/174002-) lie 45m to WNW and 75m to SSE, respectively. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 255: AP 4/3678). Monument is visible as a faint, roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2015, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 255.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 October 2020
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with burial practices in lowland areas; its location near other ditch-barrows suggests a wider ceremonial or funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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