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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, 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
Ballinascorney Upper
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23991, -6.38156
SMR number
DU024-044----

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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)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (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

Situated on a steep N-facing slope which is furze covered, and falls away to a dried-up valley. A ring-barrow identified by Healy (1975, 1-19) as being double-banked. There are man-made terraces on the slope to the SW of the ring-barrow.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on 7 July 2018

References

Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.

Nearby in the register

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

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