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Barrow

Barrow, ring-barrow

What is recorded here

Some 24m to the S of another ring-barrow (GA104-242----). According to McCaffrey (1952, 29, no. 19a; 1955, 225), this was a circular ring-barrow (diam. c. 13m) comprising a low flat-topped mound (diam. c. 7m; H 0.3m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. It had been levelled and cultivation ridges crossed it. No visible surface trace now survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 August 2019
A Neolithic ring-barrow; part of a broader pattern of early funerary monuments in the region, reflecting communal burial practices and social organisation of the time.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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