Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Shantum, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shantum
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.68567, -7.62060
- SMR number
- LF020-002----
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
On the highest point of a ridge in pasture. A circular, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (diam. at base c. 8m; H 1.8-2m). There is no trace of an encircling bank or fosse. From NE-S-SSW it is skirted by a low field bank and ditch.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regularunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.