
What is recorded here
In rough, wet, water-shaped pasture, 55m E of a townland boundary with Tonteere and 90m S of a watercourse. Ring-barrows (LI023-325/326----) lie 10m to NE and 25m to ENE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 23401: AP 4/3664). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 12m) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 23401.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 September 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a broader funerary landscape. Its location and association with other ring-barrow monuments suggest communal burial practices in the early agricultural period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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