Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenballythomas
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80354, -8.31717
- SMR number
- RO021-042012-
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 E-facing slope inside the perimeter of ceremonial enclosure (RO021-042011-) at E. Circular grass-covered hollow (diam. c. 8m; max. D 0.4m at W). Herity (1983, 132) suggests that this is a ring-barrow, but Waddell (1983, 35) regards it as a quarry pit. (Waddell 2009, 57)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Waddell, J., Fenwick, J. and Barton, K. 2009 Rathcroghan: archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape. Dublin. Wordwell.
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Herity, M. 1983 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 1. Introduction, the monuments and topography. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 121-42.
Nearby in the register
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.