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Barrow - ditch barrow

Grallagh (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Grallagh, 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
Grallagh (Roscommon By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81824, -8.30151
SMR number
RO022-056007-

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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

On a slight N-S ridge on the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Circular flat-topped grass-covered mound (diam. of top 13.7m E-W; 13.5m N-S; H 0.4-1m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7.8m; Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.1m) NW-NE and SE-SW (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 2.8m; D 0.4m). The fosse is reduced to a berm (Wth 4-4.7m) defined by the natural slope NE-SE and SW-NW. There is no visible outer bank (ext. dims 31m N-S; 26m E-W). Ring-barrow (RO022-056006-) is c. 30m to the N. (Knox 1914, 41; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, 129, Grallagh 2; Waddell 1983, 37, No. 33)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.

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.

Herity, M. 1984 A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connacht, 2. Prehistoric monuments. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 114, 125-35.

Waddell, J. 1988 Rathcroghan in Connacht. Emania 5, 5-18.

Nearby in the register

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

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