Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - embanked barrow
Lecarrow (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lecarrow (Tirawley By., Crossmolina Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.09362, -9.34011
- SMR number
- MA038-015----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
In pasture, located below the crest of a N–S ridge, close to the E–facing slope. Nephin Mountain looms to SSW and the Nephin Beg range defines the skyline at S–W.
Slightly raised, flat-topped circular area (13m E–W; 12.5m N–S) defined by remnants of a stony earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). The bank survives sporadically, in short, discrete sections, mainly where it has been protected by the roots of hawthorn bushes; elsewhere it is eroded to a low scarp (H 0.3m). It is poorly preserved. It may be the remains of a mound barrow; the diameter is small for a rath.
A short straight length of E-W bank (L 6m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m), with a hawthorn bush growing on it, lies 2.6m to S of the barrow. There is no indication that this curved around the barrow; it may be the remnant of a field fence.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.