Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture truncated by a drainage ditch / field boundary 90m SW of the townland boundary with Glen (Clanwilliam By.). The barrow is one of a group of four ring-barrows (LI024-161002/003-; LI024-244/245----) in a cemetery 20m apart. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps, it is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified during examination of Bruff aerial photographic survey of 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3681) as a ring-barrow. The site is visible with its SW side truncated by a field boundary and drainage ditch, visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. The Placenames Database of Ireland records that Knocknacrohy is derived from the Irish Cnoc na Croiche or Hill of the Gallows (www.logainm.ie). The placename may preserve a folk memory to burial on the hill relating to the proliferation of Bronze Age funerary monuments or ring-barrows on and around it.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 245 and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 18 September 2020