Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Manor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74284, -8.24260
- SMR number
- RO028-148001-
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
At the summit of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered and flat-topped mound (diam. of base 24.5m NW-SE; 21.7m NE-SW; diam. of top 19.8m NW-SE; 15.5m NE-SW; H 0.2m at S to 1.4-1.5m N-E) which has been quarried back at N and probably lowered at S. A NNE-SSW field wall and hedge overlies it W of the centre. It is within ceremonial enclosure (RO028-148002-). Bowl barrow (RO028-153----) is c. 180m to the SSW. (Herity 1983, 129)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.