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Barrow - unclassified

Abbeyland South, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Abbeyland South, County Galway, 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
Abbeyland South
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Mote
Coordinates
53.61795, -8.73915
SMR number
GA017-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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

On NW extremity of a glacial ridge, on E outskirts of Dunmore town (GA017-002----): the Sinking River flows past to NE and the old fair green lies a short distance to NW. A small well-preserved mound, roughly circular in plan and conical in profile (D 6m, H c. 1.8m). Traces of a low linear bank and shallow fosse are visible running along the ridge summit to SE. According to Bradley and Dunne (1992, 70), this mound 'seems to be the remains of a barrow'. They also express the opinion that the linear bank may be part part of 'a hollow way leading up to it ... the north side ... formed by a scrap, the south by a bank'.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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