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EARLY BRONZE AGE BURIALS IN WICKLOW

Ballyremon Commons barrow

The site is located at Calary, Kilmacanogue on the Round-
wood / Kilmacanogue road. Access is adjacent to Calary School
on the opposite side of the road.

The burial monument at Ballyremon Commons is called a
Bowl Barrow and is of Bronze Age date (circa 2100-1500 BC). A
roughly circular mound (diameter c 12m and about 1.50m high)
is surrounded by a ditch (2.50-5m wide and 1m deep) and an
external bank (2.50 - 4m wide and 0.20 - 0.95m high). The site
has been truncated on the northern side by a field boundary. The
barrow is about 25m in maximum diameter. It is on a gentle east
facing slope at an altitude of about 300m.

Immediately to the north-east of the barrow is a deserted
eighteenth-century AD settlement consisting of three rectangular
houses, small fields and enclosure (the access track cuts across
the centre of the complex). Prominent cultivation ridges survive
both in the small fields and on open land on the hillslope above
(i.e. to the west).

Ground plan of Ballyremon barrow (Sarah Cross)
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