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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 90m NE of a townland boundary with Kildromin, which also marks a parish boundary with Kilteely. Within the NW quadrant of a rectangular-shaped enclosure (LI024-285----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 284: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 14m) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 284. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with a burial mound within a low-lying landscape; its location near a parish and townland boundary suggests possible ritual or territorial significance.

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