Barrow - ditch barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture 30m E of a stream and 155m W of the townland boundary with Lissard. One of 6 barrows (LI049-072010/015-) in a field to E of drainage ditch that makes up a barrow cemetery concentrated in an area measuring 100m N-S x 115m E-W. Barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/009-) lies 70m to W and enclosure (LI049-072016-) lies 110m to SE. Three of the 6 barrows (LI049-072010/015-) in this cemetery were excavated in 1935 by S. P. Ó Ríordáin (1936, 176-177) the results of which were described as follows; ‘In 1935 further excavations were conducted on a total of twenty of these monuments. The results were frankly disappointing as no unmistakable burial was found in any of the barrows excavated’ (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 177). This site which was not excavated is located in S quadrant of the field 70m to the SE of the excavated barrow (LI049-072010-). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached location map taken from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 24 September 2021

References

Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.