Barrow

In wet pasture 75m W of a stream and 270m W of the townland boundary with Lissard. One of 9 barrows (LI049-072001/009-) that make up a barrow cemetery concentrated in an area measuring 240m N-S x 50m E-W. Six of the 9 barrows in this cemetery were excavated in 1934 by S. P. Ó Ríordáin (1936, 180-181). Site number V in Field C was not excavated. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location maps taken from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 September 2021

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE), part of a small cemetery with multiple barrows, indicating a significant ritual or funerary landscape in the local prehistoric settlement pattern.