Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Toberrory, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberrory
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80230, -8.30426
- SMR number
- RO022-057011-
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
On top of Rathcroghan mound (RO022-057010-) at the highest point of the Rathcroghan plateau. Oval grass-covered mound (dims. 9m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.2 -0.3m), which may have had a fosse (Knox 1911, 99). (Herity 1983, 130; Waddell, 1983, 27, Pl. 1)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 19/1934) and is now a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294.
References
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. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.