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Barrow - ring-barrow

Carnakit, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Carnakit, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carnakit
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.79071, -8.33089
SMR number
RO021-042020-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a curved field bank S-W, and situated on a knoll just off the N-facing crest of a WNW-ESE ridge. D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims 6.6m N-S; 5.3m E-W; H 0.2-0.4m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at W: Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.4m; at N: Wth of top 7.5m; Wth of base 4.2m; D 0.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 3-4m; ext. H 0.5m at N to 0.9m at W) S-W-N. The monument is truncated by a NNE-SSW field bank at E (max. ext. dim. 24.6m N-S), which is the W bank of the roadway (RO021-042014-) located c. 800m to the NE and which can only be seen between the two locations in dry weather when the banks are visible as parch marks. Barrow (RO021-042021-) is c. 210m to the S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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