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Barrow - unclassified

Larganboy West, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Larganboy West, 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
Larganboy West
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.79600, -8.83584
SMR number
MA092-032----

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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 the SE end of a NW–SE ridge, on a level area or slight terrace at the break of slope, with fall of ground to NE.
Depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 15-20m), and on the 1917 edition as a small circular hachured feature (diam. c.10-15m).
Destroyed during land reclamation; there is no visible trace at ground level. The siting of this monument, and its depiction on the 6-inch map, suggests that it may have been a mound or a type of barrow, perhaps similar to the mound barrow (MA092-033----), located c. 600m to SE in the same townland, or the mound barrow (MA092-012----) located c. 700m to NW.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 24 February 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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