What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, ring-barrow in Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on the Rathcroghan plateau, about 60m southeast of Rathcroghan mound and within the ceremonial enclosure, also on the line of the roadway. Aerial photographs show it as a 6-7m diameter ring, though it is not visible at ground level. Another ring-barrow lies just to the west, and a barrow about 40m to the south.

On the Rathcroghan plateau, c. 60m SE of Rathcroghan mound (RO022-057010-) and within the ceremonial enclosure (RO022-056012-). It is also on the line of the roadway (RO022-057021-). Known only from aerial photographs and described as c. 6-7m in diameter (Waddell, 1983, 29, No. 7). Ring-barrow (RO022-057015-) is just to the W, and barrow (RO022-056019-) is c. 40m to the S. It is not visible at ground level. (Herity 1983, 130; 1988, 131, Glenballythomas 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of the significant Rathcroghan complex, an important ceremonial and political landscape in early Irish history.

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