Barrow - mound barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

On top of the low WNW-ESE ridge of Caran Hill. Subcircular grass-covered and domed mound (dims 23m E-W; c. 20m N-S; H 1.7-2m) with the base of a small grass-covered cairn (RO028-138002-) (diam. 2.2m E-W; 1.8m N-S; H 0.5m), probably a clearance cairn, on the summit. The base of the mound is cut back slightly at N where there is a pond. It is described as a passage tomb (Ó Nualláin 1968, 27; Herity 1974, 280, Ro 4; de Valera and O'Nuallain 1972, 141-2). Archaeological testing (20E0594) by R. Ó Maoldúin just to the NE on the site of a proposed lay-by produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:188).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 20 October 2021

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

References

Herity, M. 1974 Irish Passage Graves. Dublin. Irish University Press.

de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Ó Nualláin, S. 1968 A ruined megalithic cemetery in Co. Donegal and its context in the Irish passage grave series. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 98, 1-29.