Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Kilnanooan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnanooan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Flanagans Fort
- Coordinates
- 53.80626, -8.28964
- SMR number
- RO022-056038-
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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 the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 41.5m NNE-SSW; 39.4m WNW-ESE; H 0.2m at E to 2m at W) which slopes down to the E (H c. 3.5m). It is bisected by a NNE-SSW field bank and drain, and is barely visible E of this feature. The platform is defined by a fosse (Wth of top 10-11m; Wth of base 5-7m; D 0.6m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5-2.2m; H 0.3m) SSW-WNW, but the fosse is reduced to a berm (Wth 7.5-10m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.9m) and the bank is absent elsewhere (max. ext. diam. 63m NNE-SSW; 63m WNW-ESE). Just NW of the centre is a low mound (RO022-056054-) (diam. 5m; H 0.1m). The road (RO022-056034-) runs W from this barrow past Rathscreg barrow (RO022-056035-) and the smaller barrows (RO022-056036-; RO022-056037-), which are c. 180m, c. 130m, and c. 100m to the WNW respectively. (Knox 1914a, 23-4 fig. 9; Herity 1983, 131; 1984, Kilnanooan; Waddell 1983, 39-41; 1988, 12, No. 42)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Waddell, J. 1988 Rathcroghan in Connacht. Emania 5, 5-18.
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.
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.
Knox, H.T. 1914 Ruins of Cruachain Ai. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 1-50.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.