Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

At the top of a low NE–SW ridge overlooking the Burren plateau, within the NE section of a forest plantation, though the monument itself and the area immediately surrounding it have not been planted. Slieve Elva is visible to the NW. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular ring-barrow (max. est. dims. 41.7m N–S, 38.7m E–W) is defined by slightly domed central area (21.6m N–S; 19.9m E–W; H 0.6-0.8m) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (av. Wth 2.5–3.7m; D 0.3–0.4m) and an outer bank (base Wth 3–4.5m; Wth at top 1.5–2m; int. H 0.3–0.4m; ext. H 0.2–0.5m). Rushes are growing in the fosse, which widens to 5m at S and narrows to 1.5m at N. The outer bank is best preserved from E to W but is hardly visible from NNW to E. Gaps at SE (Wth 6.5m) and NW (Wth 7.5m) do not appear to be original.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 15 October 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.