What is recorded here
In rough grazing atop low rise, 40m N of barrow (MA121-188----). Circular mound (diam. 7.8m E-W), enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m), with external earthen bank (H 0.9m). Overlain by two stone fences and heavily overgrown on NE.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 48.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Neolithic passage tomb, c. 3500–2500 BCE. Its construction with a fosse and external bank reflects early communal burial practices and earthwork engineering in the Irish Neolithic.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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