What is recorded here

In the Bridge Field beside Rheban Moat, a levelled mound hid a dry-walled chamber full of human bones, while an untillable corner still guards skeletons lying close to the surface. Farmers called that forbidden strip the Churchyard, treating ordinary soil as sacred death. The mound vanished under the plough, but the field remembers what the mound concealed.

According to Fitzgerald (1897, 168), 'In the next field to the moat [Rheban Moat KD034-001----] there was, some twenty years ago, a small moat which was levelled … . Under the mound was discovered a kistvaen [KD034-002002-], or dry-walled chamber, full of human bones. This field is called “the Bridge Field.” One corner of it, near the moat is never tilled, as many human bones lie close to the surface: in consequence, it is known as “the Churchyard.[KD034-003----]”' While ‘Milltown Bridge’, a canal bridge, suggests the “Bridge Field” may lie across the road to the SE of Rheban moat (KD034-001----), the precise locations of the possible mound (KD034-002001-), possible cist (KD034-002003-), and the possible burials (KD034-002003-) are unknown. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 November

Neolithic passage tomb, 4th to 3rd millennium BCE; significant as a kistvaen burial associated with early farming communities in the region.

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