Barrow

In undulating pasture, just off the top of a low rise. A circular area (diam. 8m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth 3m; D c. 0.5m) and an external earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.7m). The entrance is at E with a causeway across the fosse. The bank is overgrown with blackthorn and hawthorn bushes. This is one of five barrows in the vicinity (SL038-011----; SL038-012----; SL038-013----; SL038-014----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A Neolithic ring-barrow; dated to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. It is significant as a rare and well-preserved example of early ceremonial burial architecture in the region.