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Barrow - ring-barrow

Woodbrook, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Woodbrook, 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
Woodbrook
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.95241, -8.15640
SMR number
RO007-107----

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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

Located in improved pasture toward the NE end of the crest of a NE-SW ridge. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a circular area (diam. 34m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) defined by a scarp that is best preserved (at NE: Wth 2m; H 0.4m) SW-N-NE but declines to a slighter scarp (at SE: Wth 1m; H 0.1m) NE-SW. There is an outer fosse (at NE: Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.15m) and external bank (at NE: Wth of base 4.6m; Wth of top 2m; ext. H 0.15m) W-NE, but the fosse is also traceable NE-SE. There is no visible entrance. The monument is overlain by a NE-SW field bank and hedge towards the edge at SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 May, 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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