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Barrow - unclassified

Gortnaboul, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Gortnaboul, 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
Gortnaboul
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98477, -9.26239
SMR number
CL015-036----

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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

In undulating marshy pasture with clear views in all directions, c. 80m W of a N-flowing stream that forms the townland boundary with Cloongarve. Hachured on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A large oval earth and stone mound (35m E-W; 30m N-S; H 2.5m over W and N; H 3.5m elsewhere), with a level, circular summit (diam. 5.5m) defined by a low, broad earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; H 0.1-0.65m). The bank is highest at W (H 0.65m) where it is revetted by a course of horizontal and a course of vertical shale slabs (L 2m) on its internal face. An ESB pole stands at the S foot of the mound. A ringfort (KD015-035----) lies c. 75m to the NW.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 7-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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