Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Grange Beg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Beg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doo
- Coordinates
- 53.94764, -8.30526
- SMR number
- RO010-001----
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
On the summit of a drumlin. Subcircular, steep-sided, grass-covered and flat-topped earthen mound (dims of base 24.5m N-S; 22m E-W; diam. of top 2.5m; H 4m at N to 5.7m at S). A band of wet ground (Wth 4.5m) at the base indicates a fosse (max. ext. diam. c. 35m). Embanked enclosure (RO006-118001-) is c. 380m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.