What is recorded here

Barrow is an unclassified burial mound on Slieve Breagh, a ridge stretching from Rathkenny in County Meath toward Dunleer in County Louth. The summit once held several barrows, raths and hut sites, though ploughing has removed much of the eastern end. De Paor and Ó h-Eochaidhe excavated part of the complex in the early 1960s, but little is known of what they found. The name Breagh descends from Brega, the heights that gave their name to the whole of Meath.

Slieve Breagh is an ENE-WSW ridge (L of summit c. 500m) that is part of an NE-SW line of hills which extends from Rathkenny, Co. Meath almost to Dunleer, Co. Louth (L c. 15km). There are a number of summit ridges with high cols between them. Breagh is derived from Brega (the heights) which is also the name of the Meath territory. The E end of this summit and much of its S face in Creewood townland is now reclaimed pasture but the remainder in Rathbranchurch is unchanged from the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and preserves a collection of earthwork monuments consisting mostly of barrows and a few raths as well as some hut-sites that were recorded in the 1950s (de Paor and Ó h-Eochaidhe 1956). There was some excavation (E000038) by de Paor and Ó h-Eochaidhe in the Creewood part of the complex in 1959-1961, but little is known about the results (Herity and Eogan 1977, 49). This feature (No. 33) was in the uncultivated land on the summit ridge (SMR file) but is not included in the original survey (de Paor and Ó h-Eochaidhe 1956) and may have been discovered in excavation. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 5 August 2022

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