What is recorded here

Barrow is one of five aligned monuments in County Limerick, including three ring-barrows, a standing stone and an enclosure stretched across 165m of wet pasture. The line has resisted modern mapping, hiding beneath drains, watercourses and changing fields while the older boundary still marks the land. People may have walked that diagonal for centuries, reading death, ownership or ceremony in its shape before pasture and drainage buried the evidence.

In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 33m NW of a townland boundary with Oldtown. One of a complex of five monuments aligned roughly NE-SW along the townland boundary, over an approximate distance of 165m and consisting of a standing stone (LI032-160001-), three ring-barrows (LI032-160002-/03-/04-) and an enclosure (LI032-160005-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 273: AP 5/2047). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image (northern most monument). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 November 2020

A Bronze Age barrow; part of a linear monument group, likely associated with early funerary or territorial practices. Its alignment and grouping suggest ritual or social significance in a prehistoric landscape.

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