What is recorded here

Barrow is a fifty-one-metre ring-barrow on a narrow ridge in County Offaly, marked on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map as an irregular earthwork. Its shallow fosse and low bank still trace a circle despite field boundaries cutting through the west side. The shape suggests people once shaped that ridge into a visible marker, perhaps for burial, ceremony or simply to claim the high ground.

On top of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside. Roughly circular domed area (diam. 51m) enclosed by a wide shallow fosse (Wth 6m; ext. D 0.5m) with external bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.7m). W side of external bank acts as a field boundary while the SE sector of the inner fosse and external bank is destroyed. Indicated on 1840 edition of OS 6-inch map as an irregularly shaped earthwork. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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