What is recorded here
In gently undulating low-lying wet pasture with another ditch-barrow (TS065-034008-) located 10m to the NNW. Visible on aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey 2093). Circular area (diam. 6m) defined by a shallow fosse (overall Wth 2.3m; Wth at base 1.1m; D 0.1m). The inner side of the fosse and a portion of the edge of the interior have been eroded SE-SW. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 9 September 2014
Ditch barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. These monuments are significant as they represent early funerary and ritual practices associated with burial mounds and encircling ditches in lowland Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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