Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Glassallen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glassallen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75246, -6.49259
- SMR number
- ME013-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated just off the NE side of the spine of a NW-SE spur. A circular feature is visible on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 738, O 127) from the 1970s. This is a circular, grass-covered mound (diam. 12m N-S; 10.9m E-W; H 1.4m at W to 1.9m at E) with no distinguishing features.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Amended: 3 August 2022
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medieval1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Slab-lined burial1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monks1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.