Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Magheraboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.90693, -8.55226
- SMR number
- RO008-024----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying level landscape with a NW-SE stream c. 20m to the NE. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 15.5m N-S; 11.8m E-W; H 0.4-0.5m) defined by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.6m; at E: Wth of top 7.4m; Wth of base 5.4m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 3.8-5.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m). The platform and bank are quarried at SE, while the bank has been augmented at N (Wth 7.4m) and removed (L 12m) by a NE-SW farm track at NW (max. ext. dims 34.2m N-S; 30.3m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 23/1956).
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.