What is recorded here

Barrow is a seven-metre ring of ancient earth on flat pasture in County Limerick, one of five burial mounds clustered near the Castlelloyd boundary. It resisted mapping for decades, appearing and disappearing across aerial photographs until satellite images caught its faint circular shadow. The land may have swallowed the marker during wet seasons or hidden it beneath grass and shadow, yet the barrow endures as a quiet ring of dead time in ordinary fields.

On flat pasture 140m E of the N tip of the townland boundary with Castlelloyd. One of five barrows (LI025-033001/003/004-/005-) in a barrow cemetery. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 10.2; AP 4/3621) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 7.5m). The ring-barrow is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 10.2 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 22 September 2020

Ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is part of a barrow cemetery, indicating a significant prehistoric burial landscape.

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