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Barrow

Barrow, mound barrow

What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, mound barrow in Dacklin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on top of a drumlin, about 10m NE of a rath. The circular grass-covered earthen mound measures 7.7m N-S, 6.8m E-W, and stands 1.2 to 1.25m high.
On top of a drumlin, c. 10m NE of rath (RO011-097001-). Circular grass-covered but poached earthen mound (diam. 7.7m N-S; 6.8m E-W; H 1.2-1.25m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic mound barrow; likely dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Such barrows are significant as early funerary monuments, reflecting communal burial practices and landscape use in prehistoric Ireland.

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