What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, ring-barrow in Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits on a south-facing slope of the Rathcroghan plateau, where another ring-barrow lies twenty metres to the south-south-east and a rath stands seventy-five metres to the north. Scholars still debate whether the earthwork marks a prehistoric burial or an early medieval cashel, but it remains one layer in a dense cluster of monuments on ground tied to the kings of Connacht.

On a S-facing slope of Rathcroghan plateau with slight N-S ridges to the E and W. Visible on an aerial photograph and described as a small mound (diam. c. 5m) (SMR file), it is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ring-barrow (RO022-057075-) is c. 20m to the SSE, and rath (RO022-057022-) is c. 75m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location within the Rathcroghan plateau, a significant archaeological landscape, suggests a possible association with funerary or ritual practices of the period.

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