Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Knockbarragh, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbarragh
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.69976, -6.74162
- SMR number
- CW017-033----
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
Present remains consist of approximately circular mound on sloping ground (downslope H c. 1.5m, upslope H c. 0.2m; base diam. c. 15m). Now masked by boulders from field clearance and scarped on all sides.
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.