Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Castleruby, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleruby
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77581, -8.33434
- SMR number
- RO027-021003-
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
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 20m) and situated on the crest of a NW-SE ridge. Grass-covered and round-topped earthen mound which has a sub-rectangular base (dims 11.2m N-S; 11m E-W; H 1.6m at N to 2.4m at S) where some old field banks have been removed. The base of the mound is overlain by a N-S field bank at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.