Rathbeg


Rathbeg

Location: Toberrory, Co. Roscommon

Classification: Barrow - Ring Barrow

SMR Code: RO022-057001-

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Despite its name, Rathbeg (The Little Fort), is actually a Ring Barrow - A Bronze Age funerary monument. A c.36m diameter, mound is encircled by concentric rings in a tiered effect. It has a double ditch on three sides of the monument and an extra ditch on the western side. There is a small cairn at the summit surrounded by small banks and ditches, which creates the terracing.

Description

Despite its name, Rathbeg (The Little Fort), is actually a Ring Barrow - A Bronze Age funerary monument. A c.36m diameter, mound is encircled by concentric rings in a tiered effect. It has a double ditch on three sides of the monument and an extra ditch on the western side. There is a small cairn at the summit surrounded by small banks and ditches, which creates the terracing.

History

Almost exclusively associated with single or multiple burials, there is a wide range of different types of barrows whose names usually derive from their individual shape. Such monuments tend to originate in the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Ireland. There is plenty of evidence for later interactions and reinterpretations by successive generations which has, in turn, preserved the monuments ritual importance but oftentimes changing their original role.

Folklore

The literature regarding Rathcroghan presents a context for a number of the archaeological features of the complex. Burial mounds such as Rathbeg fit with recorded references to Rathcroghan as one of the three Heathen Cemeteries of Ireland by Christian scribes in the 12th-century manuscript ,'Lebor na hUidre' (The Book of the Dun Cow).

This monument is part of a Complex

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Rathcroghan Royal Complex


Location: Tulsk, Co. Roscommon


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This monument is part of a Complex

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Rathcroghan Royal Complex


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Accessibility Rating: Easy

Guided tours of this monument and others within the complex can be arranged through the Rathcroghan Visitors Centre Tulsk, Castlerea, County Roscommon. Tel: 00353 (0) 71 963 9268. Visit www.rathcroghan.ie for more details.


Accessibility

Accessibility Class: Easy

Guided tours of this monument and others within the complex can be arranged through the Rathcroghan Visitors Centre Tulsk, Castlerea, County Roscommon. Tel: 00353 (0) 71 963 9268. Visit www.rathcroghan.ie for more details.


Facilities

Rathcroghan Visitors Centre Tulsk, Castlerea, County Roscommon. Tel: 00353 (0) 71 963 9268

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