Barrow

On flat wet pasture 95m SSE of townland boundary with Rockbarton and Grange, 1.5km WNW of Lough Gur. The ring-barrow (LI031-177002-) is one of nine ring-barrows with an enclosure (LI031-076001/8- and LI031-177001-) in a ring-barrow cemetery within a 200m radius. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 but is not visible on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 35.02: AP 4/3644) as an oval ring-barrow (ext. dims. c. 10m N-S; 7m E-W). The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 but not of the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 35.02 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 22 October 2020

A Bronze Age ring-barrow; part of a group of nine ring-barrows with enclosures, indicating a significant funerary and ritual landscape associated with early metalworking communities in the region.