What is recorded here

Barrow stands on a drumlin summit in County Clare, a 26m bowl of packed earth and gorse that has watched the Cooleen River and surrounding fields since before human memory. The mound rises 1.55m above a shallow fosse, its outer bank still holding the shape of hands that built it. Goats and wind have softened the edges, but the circle remains clear enough to walk around at dawn. What was buried there has long since returned to the soil; the barrow itself has become a marker of continuity, a small hill that refuses to be forgotten.

In coarse marshy pasture on the summit of a prominent drumlin in a field of small drumlins c. 125m SE of the Cooleen River with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A bowl barrow (diam. c. 26m) comprising a mound (diam. 8.5m; H 1.55m), a flat-based fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.6m), and a flat-topped outer bank (Wth 5.5m; ext. H c. 2m; int. H 0.6m). The monument is covered in gorse. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Bowl barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). These burial mounds are significant as they represent some of the earliest known funerary monuments in Ireland, often associated with elite burials and ritual activity.

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