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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

In pasture on a long gentle NE slope of Brewel Hill. A second ringbarrow (KD032-025----) lies c. 80m to the W, a third (KD032-022----) c. 220m to the N and a fourth (KD032-023----) c. 250m to the NW. A low circular area (diam. 14m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse (D 0.3-0.5m; Wth 3.5-4m), and by a low broad outer bank (int. H 0.3.0.5m; Wth 7.5m; ext H 0.1-0.3m) SE-W-NE, which is truncated by a road NE-SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 18 October 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1976).
Round barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location among a cluster of similar barrows suggests a ceremonial or funerary landscape of regional significance.

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