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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 50m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (11m E-W; 9m N-S) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 October 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE, part of a burial tradition associated with early farming communities in Ireland. Its location within a cluster suggests a significant ceremonial or funerary landscape, though individual significance remains poorly documented.

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