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Barrow - ring-barrow

Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Finnor More, 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
Finnor More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1922)
Coordinates
52.79834, -9.42349
SMR number
CL038-034----

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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

At the crest of a N-facing slope. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 30.5m E-W; 29.5m N-S; H 0.8m at W to 1.4m at S) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 11m; ext. D 0.5m at WSW to 1.4m NW-SE), and an outer bank (at WSW: Wth 8m; ext. H 0.8m; at N: Wth 12m; ext. H 0.6m; at ENE: Wth 6m; ext. H 0.7m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) SE-SW. The fosse was re-cut as a drain (Wth of base 1.6-4.5m; D 0.4m) SE-NW with an exit drain at S. There is an entrance (Wth 7m) in the bank and a causeway (Wth 7m) at E which lead to a subrectangular hut site (CL038-034002-) on the mound, and there is a modern entrance through the bank at NW (max. ext. dims. 74m N-S; 66m E-W).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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