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Barrow - bowl-barrow

Carrowkeel (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - bowl-barrow, Carrowkeel, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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