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In level improved pasture. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but archaeological excavation here in 1935 revealed a circular ring-barrow (diam. c. 5m) defined by a fosse and outer bank (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 183-4). No burials were found. The excavation 'revealed three peculiar pockets in the original ground-surface filled with dark humified soil. Each about 2 feet [0.6m] in length and consisted of a circular part, 6-inches in diameter, and a long narrow portion about 3-inches [0.07m] in width, this latter part being filled with material somewhat lighter in colour because less humified. The maximum depth of these pockets was only 2½-inches [0.06m]. Their purpose is not clear; one might suggest their having contained deposits of cremated remains that had been completely dissolved by soil-acids, but this is only surmise (ibid. 184). No surface trace now visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 14 October 2015
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