Barrow

In Woodtown, County Meath, an oval mound of earth and stones spans fifteen metres east to west and rises two metres above the grass. It marks pit burials from the Bronze Age, when people laid their dead beneath soil rather than building tall tombs. The barrow survived ploughs and centuries of change in a county dense with older ritual sites. Its quiet shape still holds the forgotten dead, waiting for someone to walk past and imagine the hands that first shaped it.