What is recorded here
In improved pasture on low rise at NNW-edge of old sinuous water channel. Circular area (dims. 6.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by very distinctive fosse (basal Wth 0.5-0.9m; overall Wth 3.5-3.7m; D 0.1-0.4m) and remains of an indistinct levelled external bank (Wth 3.6-4.2m; int. H 0.25-0.5m; ext. H 0.1-0.15m) S-ESE. Interior generally level in centre and falling gently to fosse around its perimeter. In general, this monument is distinctively saucer shaped. Identified on aerial photograph (251/20, 251/21).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A Neolithic ring-barrow, c. 2500–2000 BCE, characterized by a circular fosse and central burial mound. Such monuments are significant as early funerary and ceremonial structures, reflecting communal burial practices and social organization in Neolithic Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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