What is recorded here
On the W-facing slope of a broad WNW-ESE ridge. Described in 1965 as a circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a fosse (Wth of base c. 2m) and an outer bank (Wth c. 1.5m; int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H c. 0.4m) (SMR file), it is no longer visible in improved pasture. Ring-barrow (RO035-036----) is c. 150m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to the 4th–3rd millennia BCE, characterized by its circular fosse and outer bank; such monuments are significant as early funerary and ceremonial structures in the Irish landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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