Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carrowreagh (upperwoods By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowreagh (upperwoods By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01431, -7.64838
- SMR number
- LA015-003----
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
Marked on the 1841 ed OS 6-inch map. Situated on marshy ground midway down a NE-facing slope. A flat-topped circular mound (diam. c. 10m, max. H c. 1.35m) surrounded by a waterlogged and partially infilled fosse (average Wth 2.1m; D 0.7m) which broadens out from SE-SW (max. Wth 3.7m) and is enclosed by a low counterscarp bank (Wth 2.6m, max. ext. H 0.6m). A field boundary skirts the counterscarp at S. Site overgrown with hawthorn and brambles.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.