What is recorded here
In rough, wet, water-shaped pasture, 65m E of a townland boundary with Tonteere and 70m S of a watercourse. Ring-barrows (LI023-213/326----) lie 10m to SW and 11m to E, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 234.2: AP 4/3664). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 12.5m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, however is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage 201-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 234.2.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a dispersed burial tradition in the region. Its location near other ring-barrow monuments suggests a local funerary landscape of significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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