What is recorded here

Barrow is a vanished ring-barrow on a Monaghan drumlin, reduced from a twenty-metre fort to a curved bank and hidden ditch before pasture and forgetting closed over it. The 1834 map still draws its circle in gothic lettering, preserving the shape that ground later swallowed. It may have marked a grave, a boundary or a small cult place, but the land has taken back the answer.

Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. It is depicted as a small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It was described in 1945 (SMR file) as a curve of a bank (ext. H c. 0.6m; int. H c. 0.9m) with an internal ditch or fosse (Wth of base c. 0.3m) and a slightly domed interior that was truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at E. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture (OSAP). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 20 June 2018

A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with early burial practices and landscape use in a drumlin environment.

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