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Barrow - bowl-barrow

Greenmount, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - bowl-barrow, Greenmount, County Monaghan, 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
Greenmount
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Moat
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.23942, -6.86015
SMR number
MO010-015001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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

Located NW of the centre of the ceremonial enclosure (MO010-015----). This is a circular scrub-covered and steep-sided mound (diam. of base 13m; diam. of top 2m; H 2m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.4m) SE-SW and NW-NE with a causeway (Wth 2m) at W.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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