Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - embanked barrow
Knocknafushoga, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknafushoga
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91692, -8.24947
- SMR number
- RO010-056----
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 a gentle N-facing slope. Raised circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.8-1m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 6-6.6m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.2-0.4m) SW-N-SE. There is no visible entrance (max. ext. diam. 20m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.