Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Cashelfinoge Or Lugnamuddagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelfinoge Or Lugnamuddagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doonamease
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doonamease
- Coordinates
- 53.96305, -8.29327
- SMR number
- RO006-072----
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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 grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 10.2-10.5m; H 2m at N to 3.9m at W) with a slightly dished summit (diam. 2.6m). There is a berm (Wth 5.7m) around the base at E (max ext. diam. c. 25m) and, according to John O'Donovan in 1837, it was known as 'Dumha na Mias' (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 95-6). Barrow (RO006-071----) is c. 30m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.