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Barrow - ring-barrow

Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Island, 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
Island
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.77499, -8.79745
SMR number
MA093-096----

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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 top of a hillock, at the break of slope on the SE side. The location provides extensive views over the surrounding undulating terrain; trees block views of Croagh Patrick to W and Nephin Mountain to NW. Another barrow (MA093-038001) is visible on a prominent elevation c. 200m to SSW. When inspected in 1998, this monument consisted of a central circular mound (2.4m N–S; 2.6m E–W; H 0.35m) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.2m) with an external bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m), with an overall diameter of c. 9m. The outer bank was poorly defined, and graded into the hill slope, and the E side of the barrow was partly dug away. An inspection in March 2017 found that the barrow has been entirely levelled.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 August 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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