Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Greatmeadow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatmeadow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doo
- Coordinates
- 53.96290, -8.29391
- SMR number
- RO006-071----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular, round-topped and grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 6.3-6.5m; H 0.8m at E to 1.7m at W). There is a slight berm (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) at the base of the mound at S. Barrow (RO006-072----) is c. 30m to the ENE. Archaeological testing (05E0121) to within c. 30m of the site in the fields to the S, W and N failed to produce any related material (Read, C. 2008).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2008 Greatmeadow: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 325, No. 1334. Dublin, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.