Burial mound in Killahurler Lower

Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Steep-sided circular mound (diam. 16m; H 2.8-4m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2-4m; D 0.4m). Part of the centre and the E side have been removed through quarrying. An urn was allegedly found here in the 19th century (Waddell 1990, 166). Included on the Register of Historic Monuments by Minister John Gormley, DoEHLG, on 7 September 2009 and published in Iris Oifigiúil on 18 September 2009. (G. Conroy.) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Bronze Age burial mound, likely dating to the early first millennium BCE. Its construction with a fosse and the presence of an urn indicate ritual practices associated with communal burial and territorial markers in the prehistoric landscape.