What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, mound barrow in Toberdan, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular flat-topped mound sits on the west-facing crest of a small northwest-southeast ridge, reaching eleven point three metres across. A one to one point two five metre scarp defines its edge, with facing-stones most evident at the southwest. Another barrow lies seventy-five metres southeast, and a rath stands sixty metres north.

On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Circular flat-topped, grass and scrub-covered mound (diam. of top 11.3m WNW-ESE; 10.9m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (H 1-1.25m) with facing-stones that are most evident at SW. Barrow (RO045-048001-) is c. 75m to the SE, and rath (RO045-046----) is c. 60m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

A Neolithic mound barrow; significant as a rare surviving example of early funerary monument construction in the region.

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