Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballynunnery, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynunnery
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.77784, -6.82672
- SMR number
- CW013-019----
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
Mound with gently sloping sides and small rounded summit (H 2-2.5m; base diam.. c. 16m). Formerly tree-covered. According to local tradition, bell from nearby church to SE (CW013-020----) buried here to prevent its use for sacrilegious purposes. (JKAS 1933, 303)
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.