Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Skeanavart, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeanavart
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mound
- Coordinates
- 53.86911, -8.23289
- SMR number
- RO016-059----
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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 rise of a broad E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 12.5m E-W; 12m N-S; H 2.3m at W to 2.8m at S) with a flat summit (diam. 1.15m). Rath (RO016-063----) is c. 170m to the S, and barrow (RO016-060----) is c. 140m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.