What is recorded here
Located towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of Monalee Hill, with a NW-SE stream c. 40m to the W, and just S of a NE-SW road. According to Kinahan (1879-88, 153) a cist containing an urn was discovered at the E edge of barrow (WX002-038001-) c. 1840.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 Januery, 2012
Cist burial, likely dating to the Early Christian or Bronze Age. Its significance lies in the discovery of an urn, suggesting funerary practices associated with ritual deposition in a landscape marked by later archaeological activity.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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