What is recorded here
On a very gentle S-facing slope. A small, almost totally overgrown, slightly raised, circular area (diam. 9m) is girdled by a vegetation band (Wth 1-1.5m) which may represent a back-filled fosse.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
A Neolithic ditch barrow; its significance lies in representing early funerary and earthwork traditions in Ireland, though specific details remain poorly documented.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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