What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, ring-barrow in Kilmacuagh, County Roscommon, Ireland. It sits towards the top of the SE-facing slope of Fairymount Hill, with a circular grass and furze-covered platform about 14 to 15m wide. A flat-bottomed fosse and outer flat-topped bank define the ring, and a 1m entrance opens at the SE. Another barrow lies about 110m to the NW.

Towards to top of the SE-facing slope of Fairymount Hill. Circular grass and furze-covered platform (diam. 14.7m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE; H 0.1-0.3m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.5-0.6m SE-SW to 0.8-0.9m NW-NE) and an outer flat-topped bank (Wth of base 2.7-3.7m generally to 6m at NW; Wth of top 0.9-1.2m; H 0.3m at NE to 0.7-1.1m generally). There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at SE and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank and drain NNW-NE (max. ext. diam. 30.7m NW-SE; 27.2m NW-SE). Barrow (RO036-013001-) is c. 110m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Neolithic ring-barrow, c. 2500–2000 BCE. A rare and early form of burial monument, ring-barrow represents a transitional phase in Irish funerary architecture between long barrows and later cairns.

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