What is recorded here
On low-lying, improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 105m to S which also marks a townland boundary with Knockcorragh. Ring-barrow (LI023-216003-) is within the interior and ring-barrow (LI023-216002-) lies 15m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a penannular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 13801: AP 4/3658). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/08/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 26/08/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 13801.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 September 2020
A Bronze Age ring-barrow; its association with a barrow complex suggests a funerary and ceremonial significance in the local prehistoric landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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