Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Cloonbard, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbard
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.79021, -8.44181
- SMR number
- RO021-058----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, and situated on the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Circular, flat-topped and grass-covered mound (diam. of base 13m NW-SE; diam. of top 7m NE-SW; 6.8 NW-SE; H 1.4-1.6m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.2m) E-S which is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2-3m) S-N, but the fosse and the base of the mound are truncated by a WNW-ESE road bank at NE (max. ext. diam. 20.5m NW-SE). Rath (RO021-044----) is c. 170m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.