Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinascorney Upper
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23991, -6.38156
- SMR number
- DU024-044----
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
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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.