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 second northernmost marker appeared only in 1986 aerial photos, suggesting human hands shaped that boundary long before modern fields covered it.

In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 25m 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 274: AP 5/2047). Faint outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012. Not visible 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 (second northern most monument). Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 November 2020

A Bronze Age barrow, likely a ring barrow or bell barrow; part of a ritual landscape associated with burial and territorial demarcation. Its alignment with other monuments suggests a ceremonial or social significance in the prehistoric landscape.

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