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Barrow - ring-barrow

Pollower, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Pollower, 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
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-

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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

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 Unpublished report, Moore Group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

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

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