What is recorded here

Barrow is a small embanked circle on a gentle slope in County Longford, marked as a fort on an 1837 map. Its low earth-and-stone bank still surrounds a dished floor where two larch trees have taken root, while a narrow break at the north-east may preserve the entrance used long before the trees arrived. The place is less than half a metre high, yet it keeps the shape of human choice: a boundary drawn, a gap left open, and a life lived inside that circle until memory thinned.

On a low knoll on a gentle SE-facing slope. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A circular area (diam. 5.6m), slightly dished in profile, enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2-3m; H 0.5m). A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at NNE may mark the original entrance. Two mature larch trees are growing within the interior. At ESE a large boulder (H 0.7m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.2m) may have served as a facing stone on the inner face of the bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 February 2012

Embanked barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its original function as a burial monument and later misinterpretation as a 'fort' highlight common challenges in interpreting prehistoric earthworks.

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