What is recorded here
In pasture immediately N of a linear drainage ditch and E of field boundary. Ring-barrows (LI024-244-/245-/161002-) are located to the immediate W and N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 58(03); AP 4/3681) as a circular cropmark. Visible as a U-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 58(03).
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 July 2020
Ring-barrow, Bronze Age. A type of burial mound typically associated with single inhumations, these monuments are significant for understanding early funerary practices and social organisation in prehistoric Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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