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Barrow - ring-barrow

Durrow Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Durrow Demesne, County Offaly, 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
Durrow Demesne
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32401, -7.51997
SMR number
OF009-005027-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Geophysical Survey carried out in 2000 and 2001 in the fields to the S of Durrow church (OF009-005013-) and graveyard (OF009-005009-) identified the remains of two possible ring barrows (OF009-005028-) which appear to have been cut across by the later monastic enclosure (OF009-005003-) at S (O'Brien 2012, 121).

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 29 April 2014

References

O'Brien, E. 2012 Rediscovering Columba's monastery at Durrow, Co. Offaly. In P. Harbison and V. Hall (eds.), A carnival of learning: essays to honour George Cunningham and his 50 conferences on medieval Ireland in the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Joseph, Roscrea, 1987-2012, 111-124. Roscrea. Cistercian Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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