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Barrow - mound barrow

Skeagh (Carbery West (E.D) By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Skeagh, County Cork, 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
Skeagh (Carbery West (E.D) By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.57463, -9.33839
SMR number
CO141-013003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Ministerial Consent was granted to Coillte 09/08/17 in order to fell trees within the vicinity of two National Monuments (NM580) (CO141-013001- and CO141-013002-) at Skeagh, Skibbereen, County Cork. The monitoring brief was extended to the extant ring-barrow (CO141-145----) located c. 44m to N and the cairn (CO141-144----) c. 22m to S due to their proximity and probable association as satellite monuments to the larger cairn (CO141-013002-; NM 580) A previously unrecorded barrow was noted c. 2m to SE of the large cairn (CO141-013002-), at the edge of the unplanted exclusion zone. It is an oval mound (dims. 4.8m N-S; 4.1m E-W) of earth and stone defined by a scarp (H 0.35m) all around. There is no extant trace of a fosse or a bank. Vegetation cover is limited as this monument was previously obscured by a fallen tree.

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Date of upload: 29 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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