Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

In wet, low-lying pasture, in the angle of two land drains, 160m SW of a townland boundary with Ballingoola. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as Site Y by Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott (1949, 127) and described as a ring-barrow cut into the surface of a rectangular-shaped platform (LI023-069001-) along with two other ring-barrows (LI023-069002-/004-). This monument was described by O'Kelly (1944, 48) as a 'very low rectangular platform surrounded by a very shallow fosse. The entrance is not recognisable. It measures overall 75' [22.8m] N-S by 45' [13.7m] E-W. At its S end and lying sided by side are two barrows, one oval and the other circular. These are low mounds surrounded by shallow fosses which are joined into that of the rectangle. The oval barrow is 45' [13.7m] N-S by 23' [7m] E-W while the other is 24' [7.3m] in diameter. The third one, also 24' [7.3m] in diameter, lies to the south of the oval barrow, both fosses being conjoined. The monuments are situated just beyond the edge of an extensive marsh'.
Monuments are not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages location map showing platform and ring-barrows marked Y after Ó Ríordáin and MacDermott 1949.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 29 August 2020

References

Ó Ríordáin, S.P. and MacDermott, M. 1949 Lough Gur Excavations: Three marsh-land habitation sites. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 79, 126-45.

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.