Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Glenballythomas, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenballythomas
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79786, -8.30377
- SMR number
- RO022-057076-
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 a S-facing slope of Rathcroghan plateau with slight N-S ridges to the E and W. Visible on an aerial photograph and described as a small mound (diam. c. 3m) (SMR file). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Ring-barrow (RO022-057075-) is c. 10m to the NNW, and rath (RO022-057022-) is c. 110m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.