Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Frenchbrook South, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frenchbrook South
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57081, -9.14718
- SMR number
- MA121-191----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SW corner of a modern pasture field, located at the break of slope at the N edge of a hill or small ridge, in an area of sharply undulating limestone terrain. The ground falls away steeply to N and NE into a natural hollow. Flat-topped circular mound (diam. 13m overall, flat top 7.3m; H 1.45m at W, 2.4m at E) of earth and stone, enclosed by remnants of a fosse and external bank. The mound slope at NE-SE is higher and steeper to compensate for the sharp natural fall of ground. The fosse (Wth 1.8m) at W-N appears as a very shallow depression, changing at NE-SE to a flat terrace (Wth 2.2.5m). It is truncated at S by a later E-W field wall. The external bank can be traced as a slight rise (Wth 1.2-1.4m; H 0.25m) at NW-NNW, petering out at N. At S and SW it has been truncated by later field walls. There is a cashel (MA121-024001) 10m to S-SE of the barrow on top the same hill.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.