What is recorded here
On a knoll at the foot of an E-facing slope, overlooking a small, N-S valley to the E. Visible on an aerial photograph (DoD 1999). A fairly poorly preserved, low, sub circular earthen mound (basal diams. 19m N-S;16.5m E-W; H 0.9m), the upper surface (diams. 9m N-S; 8m E-W) of which is defined by a narrow berm (Wth 1-1.5m), outside of which is a low scarp. Disturbance has occurred at W and E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
A stepped barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its stepped construction suggests ritual or funerary significance, typical of ceremonial burial mounds in the Irish landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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