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Barrow - ring-barrow

Frenchbrook South, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Frenchbrook South, 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
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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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 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

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

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