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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballymanagh (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballymanagh, 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
Ballymanagh (Dunkellin By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.19774, -8.71537
SMR number
GA104-044----

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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 low-lying pastureland at the interface between reclaimed pastureland to the E and wet marshy land to the W. This poorly preserved ring-barrow (11.7m E-W) is defined by a central mound (3m E-W; H 0.6m), internal fosse (Wth 3.3m) and outer bank (Wth 1.7m; base Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.85m). The fosse and outer bank are visible from S through W to N. Stone revetment is visible along the outer face of the bank at SW. It is densely overgrown with briars and thorn bushes. A modern field wall cuts through the barrow at NNE and SSE and beyond it to the E, it is obscured by rubble from field clearance.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 13 February 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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