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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballytrasna, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballytrasna, County Roscommon, 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
Ballytrasna
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Multivallate enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.95367, -8.28338
SMR number
RO006-124001-

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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

On a W-facing slope. Circular overgrown platform (diam. c. 8m; H 0.6m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top c. 4m) and earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.5m). A flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top c. 5.5m) and middle bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m) are separated by a second fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; D 0.15m) from a third outer bank (Wth 5m. int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.2-0.45m). The monument has been truncated at E and W by NW-SE roads, and the overgrown outer features only survive W-N and E-S (max. ext. diam. c. 65m NW-SE). Barrows (RO006-124002-) and (RO006-124003-) are immediately outside the perimeter to the NW and N. (Knox 1914b, 39-40)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Knox, H.T. 1914b Dumha Brosna. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 348-57.

Nearby in the register

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

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