What is recorded here

Ten metres of forgotten death sit hidden beneath Limerick pasture, waiting for someone brave enough to stop pretending the land is empty. A farm inspector saw the barrow in 2016, not through history books but through the kind of attention most people never give. The dead have been patient. They can outwait pride, forgetfulness and every busy human who believes they understand the world because they can name it.

In reclaimed pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 2016 as possible burial site in blanket bog by a Teagasc farm inspector. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 10m) defined by a fosse, truncated at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location map from An Teagasc and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 10 November 2021

Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its identification in a former blanket bog area highlights the preservation potential of such environments for prehistoric monuments.

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