Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Pollower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95785, -8.25109
- SMR number
- RO006-135001-
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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on top of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 6.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S; H 0.1-0.3m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3.2-3.8m; D 0.1-0.35m) SE-W-NE, and an outer bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) SE-S and at NE. Barrow (RO006-135002-) is 10m to the WNW. These monuments are particularly visible on Google Earth (18/03/2019). Archaeological testing (15E0105) c. 40m to the W produced no related material (Quinn 2015). See: excavations.ie 2015:149.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 2 April 2019
Amended: 5 February 2020
References
Quinn, B. 2015 Report on the Archaeological testing of a proposed dwelling house at Pollower townland, Co. Roscommon. Licence No. 15E0105. Unpublished report, Moore Group
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.