Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Carnakit, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnakit
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78732, -8.32843
- SMR number
- RO021-042031-
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
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OS: 2/4210/4252), and situated just off the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge on the S side. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 4.1m; H 0.2-0.3m) defined by a reed-filled fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2-0.3m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.