Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Cooleeny, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleeny
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.71303, -7.73424
- SMR number
- LF014-069----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · 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 a gentle SSW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a small circular enclosure with the designation 'Moat' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A circular, steep-sided, flat-topped mound of earth and stone (diam. at base 12.7m; diam. of summit 5.7m; H 2.3m). At W a portion of it has been destroyed by quarrying.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.