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Barrow - ring-barrow

Carrowcloghagh, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Carrowcloghagh, County Mayo, 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
Carrowcloghagh
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.08521, -9.33935
SMR number
MA038-051----

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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

In pasture, located on a low rise in an area of rolling grassland, bordered 200m to N by the Deel River. Nephin Mountain is prominently visible to SSW and the Nephin Beg Range extends along the skyline to W.
This ringbarrow is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, but is shown on the 1922 edition. It consists of a circular area (diam. c. 10m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.2-1.4m) with an external bank (Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m). The overall diameter (mid bank to mid bank) is 15-15.5m.
The bank was incorporated into a later field fences at W and N, but the fences since have been removed, leaving remnants of stone facing in parts on the external edge of the bank. There is a grassed-over depression (c. 10m N–S; c. 2-3m E–W), the result of past disturbance, immediately to W of the barrow, almost abutting the external edge of the bank.
This is the most north-easterly barrow in a cluster of ringbarrows, possible barrows and cairns. The other examples (MA038-050----; MA038-052----; MA038-053001- to MA038-053003-; MA038-146----) are located within 240-400m to WSW and SW. There is a possible ringcairn (MA038-054----) c. 550m to SW.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 29 July 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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