What is recorded here

Monument Wood still stands east of the barrow, but the ancient earthwork has surrendered much of its shape to repeated ploughing and grass cutting. What remains is a shallow circular platform surrounded by a narrow fosse and a thin external bank, barely visible beneath the trampled field. The barrow may have marked burial, boundary or ceremony for people who lived along the Lee Valley long before the wood gave it its modern name.

'Located in gently sloping hillside immediately to the east of a plantation of trees known as Monument Wood, this barrow lies in a field devoted to the growth of grass for the purposes of silage making. A circular platform 17.0m in diameter is enclosed by a fosse 4.00m wide and an external bank 6.00m in width, the overall diameter averaging 37.0m.The bank measures 0.30m above external ground surface, 0.40m internally with the central platform rising c.0.30m above the base of the fosse. No entrance was apparent. Its location in a field which has obviously undergone quite a lot of cultivation would explain the rather denuded state of the site.' Compiled by Michael Connolly for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as part of a survey of the Lee Valley area in 1996-97. Date of upload: 03 May 2012

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