What is recorded here

Indicated is a ring-barrow on a Laois prominence, its circular platform and shallow fosse still visible beneath furze and briars. It stands north of the sixth golf fairway, marking an old boundary between human time and green leisure. The barrow does not need explanation; it waits for people to remember that the land was crowded long before carts rolled across it.

On a local prominence, N of the sixth fairway of golf course. A ring-barrow (max. ext. diam. 15.7m), most of which is overgrown with furze and briars, defined by a circular platform (diam. 11m; H 0.2-0.6m) and a shallow V-shaped fosse (Wth 2-2.4m; ext. D 0.2-0.7m) . The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A Neolithic ring barrow, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE, located on a local prominence; such monuments are significant as early funerary and ceremonial structures associated with the burial practices of Neolithic communities.

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