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Barrow - mound barrow

Quarryland, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Quarryland, County Meath, 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
Quarryland
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Moat
Latest-edition OS map
Moat
Coordinates
53.45230, -6.50575
SMR number
ME050-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope, this feature is described as a ‘Moat’ on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a subcircular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 24m NE-SW; diam. of top 11.5m N-S; 11.3m E-W; ext. H 1.2m at NE to 1.8m at SW), with a slight outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.2m) at NE. A magnetic gradiometer survey (19R0268) in the field to the SE produced no evidence of archaeological features except for two possible fosses outside the barrow at E (Elliott 2019). Archaeological testing (20E0014) by P. D. Sweetman (2020) in an area (dims c. 80m NW-SE; c. 80m NE-SW) immediately S of the monument failed to produce any related material.

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.

Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 26 October 2021

References

Sweetman, P. D. 2020 Report on Archaeological Assessment at Quarrylnad (2), County Meath. Licence: 20E0014. Unpublished report, Author

Elliott, I. 2019 Archaeo-geophysical Survey at Quarryland, Co. Meath. Licence: 19R0268. Unpublished report, IAGS

Nearby in the register

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

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