Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Athgoe, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athgoe
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Raheen
- Coordinates
- 53.28726, -6.51257
- SMR number
- DU020-005----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on top of Athgoe Hill. This monument comprises a circular, rounded area (int. diam. 44m) which is enclosed by a continuous internal fosse and external bank. The bank is flat-topped (Wth 5m; H 0.5m) and has narrow breaks in the E and W which are probably secondary. There are no corresponding causeways in the fosse (Wth 0.8m; D 0.35m). Within the interior are numerous bumps which were evidently caused by the removal of trees from the site (Healy, pers. comm. ; Thornton 1980; Swan 1986, 4-5). Part of a barrow (DU020-006----) lies c. 150m downslope and N of this ring-barrow.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of revised upload: 12 December 2017
References
Swan, D.L. 1986 Newcastle Lyons: the prehistoric and Early Christian periods. In P. O'Sullivan (ed.), Newcastle Lyons: a parish of the Pale, Dublin, 2-4. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Thornton, G. 1980 A survey of the earthen enclosures of the Boyne Valley and related sites. MA thesis, University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.