What is recorded here
In pasture, in the NW quadrant of a group of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/013-). Enclosure (LI041-031----) lies 165m to the SW and a barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/026-) lies to the S and SSW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 1936 during a survey of the area undertaken by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 175). Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached plan of survey from Ó Ríordáin (1936) and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 July 2021
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age; part of a larger barrow group indicating a significant ceremonial or funerary landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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