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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In an overgrown copse to the S of modern houses. A raised circular area (diam. 13m) is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 4.1m), an earthen bank (int. H 1.19m; ext. H 0.94m; Wth 3.7m), which encloses the site from SE to N, an outer fosse (Wth 1.6m; D 0.94m), which encloses the site from SW to NW and an external bank (dims. unattainable due to dense vegetation), which encloses the site from SW to NW. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 4.5m) at the E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare example of a circular funerary monument with a surrounding fosse, typical of early ceremonial and burial practices in Ireland.

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