What is recorded here
In improved pasture, 145m W of the Camoge River which marks a townland boundary with Ballinard. A ring-barrow (LI032-197----) lies 30m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 152.02: AP 4/3638), as a small roughly circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 14m) defined by an inner fosse and a possible outer bank, best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, barely visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 152.02.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, associated with burial practices in the Irish landscape. Its identification through aerial photography highlights the importance of such methods in uncovering prehistoric monuments.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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