What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, ring-barrow in Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland. H. Knox called it a cashel in 1914, but Waddell and Herity later identified it as a ring-barrow because a shallow grass-covered mound and slight central rise fit the prehistoric funerary form. It stands on the Rathcroghan plateau near another barrow, a third barrow and a rath, adding one more layer to that old ceremonial landscape.

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. 3m) (SMR file). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ring-barrow (RO022-057075-) is c. 10m to the NNW, and rath (RO022-057022-) is c. 110m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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

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