What is recorded here
In improved, low-lying pasture, 55m N of a watercourse and 400m S of a townland boundary with Doonvullen Upper. Ring-barrows (LI023-222001-/02-/03-) lie 105m to S and enclosure (LI023-219----) lies 135m to ENE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 274: AP 4/3661). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (11m E-W; 10m N-S) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 274.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 26 September 2020
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a broader funerary landscape. Its location suggests ritual or social significance within a low-lying pastoral environment.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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