Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Carrowkeel (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98236, -9.28823
- SMR number
- CL015-026----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a prominent hill in partly drained pasture with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A bowl-barrow comprising a central flat-topped mound (diam. 11.5m N-S; 11.4m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.65-1.2m), a fosse (Wth 1.4-4m; ext. D 0.25-0.9m), and an external flat-topped bank (Wth at base 2.7m; Wth at top 0.90m; ext. H 0.3m). At NNE stone-facing slabs are evident along the edge of the mound. An entrance gap (Wth 2.55m) flanked by two upright stones is present in the bank at WSW with a causeway (Wth 1.8m) crossing the fosse. The larger (S) upright slab measures 0.5m x 0.6m.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 28 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.