What is recorded here
In level grassland, c. 110m to the SE of a ring-barrow (GA114-130----). A NW-SE running field boundary clips the monument at SW. This densely overgrown circular area (diam. 38.3m) is defined by a fosse and traces of a possible external earthen bank. The interior is lower than the surrounding field level. Other ring-barrows (GA114-130----, GA114-134---- and GA114-135----) lie c. 80m to the NNE, c. 260m to the WSW and c. 355m to the SSW respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 September 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1971).
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with burial practices of the period; its fosse and circular form are characteristic of ceremonial or funerary earthworks in this tradition.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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