What is recorded here

Barrow is a largely leveled circular mound in County Cavan, Ireland, occupying a wide complex of burial and ritual sites beneath Slieve Glah. Its low earthen bank and hidden entrance suggest people once shaped the land for death, memory or ceremony before forgetting the exact words they spoke. The mound still holds that abandoned purpose, waiting for a person willing to sit with it instead of explaining it away.

One of a complex of burial and ritual sites which occupy an area 150m by 130m on a patch of uneven elevated pastures overlooked from the NW by Slieve Glah (CV026-004004-, CV026-004001-, CV026-004003-, CV026-004005-, CV026-004006-). A largely leveled low circular mound (int. diam. 6.2m; H 0.27m) enclosed by a much-defaced low earthen bank with vague traces of an internal fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

A Neolithic barrow; part of a ritual and burial complex, indicating early communal land use for ceremonial purposes in the Irish Bronze Age landscape.

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