Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Agharue, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Agharue
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.78205, -7.07536
- SMR number
- CW011-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Large steep-sided mound with rounded summit (H 3m; base diam. c. 23m). Summit disturbed and overgrown but appears to be relatively small. Traces of fosse and possible levelled bank enclose mound.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
- Fulacht fia2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.