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Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument represents a funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, when such mounds served as communal or elite burial places across the Irish landscape. As a surviving example of Bronze Age funerary architecture in the Carrickfergus area, the barrow contributes to understanding prehistoric settlement and burial practices in north-eastern Ireland during the second millennium BC.
Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 3315. View the official record →
Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 3315.
Barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 3315.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring barrow (2.6 km), Ring barrow (2.7 km), The mount. raised rath (3.2 km).
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