Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

At the base of a W-facing slope, in improved rough pasture, immediately SE of a stream with moderate views to W, N and E, and obscured by a forestry plantation to S. This monument was identified on Bing satellite imagery (https://binged.it/2qT1TAO, taken in 2012 and accessed on 6 June 2017). It consists of a circular area (18m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a fosse (basal Wth 3m; overall Wth 7m; D 0.2m) N-WSW. There is a very wide intervening berm (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.1m; Wth at top 5.5m; overall Wth 9.55m) ENE-SW of which there is a faint trace N-E. An outer fosse (basal Wth 2.8m; overall Wth 5.2m; D 0.15m) is present NE-SW. The enclosing elements are largely levelled SW-NW, however it is clear from the Bing and Google satellite photographs that they continued in a full circle with the outer fosse directly abutting the stream to NW (max. overall diam. 61m). The outer enclosing elements of the monument appear to have been disturbed across the NE sector by a field boundary (long-axis NW-SE) which is depicted on all OS historic mapping. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth at top 3.5m; overall Wth 5m; L 21m) at ESE, which extends across the inner fosse to the intervening berm and appears to have been disturbed in the vicinity of the outer fosse, where it is difficult to trace. The interior is generally level and there is a slight depression in the NE sector. Kiltoraght church (CL016-086001-) lies 120m to the NE.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL016-178----_01.jpg From S. General view of monument.
CL016-178----_02.jpg From W. Cross-section view of fosse (inner) and intervening bank at S.
CL016-178----_03.jpg From W. Causewayed entrance at E.
CL016-178----_04.jpg From W. General view of monument.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 21 May 2018