Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Ballaghabawmore,brierfield,carrowbaun (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghabawmore,brierfield,carrowbaun (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74254, -8.27641
- SMR number
- RO028-177----
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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
About 160m from the NE shore of a triangular turlough (dims c. 1 km NW-SE; c. 600m NE-SW at SE). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 27.4m N-S; 23.8m E-W; H 0.6-1m). It is overlain by a collapsed ENE-WSW drystone wall, and crannog (RO028-176----) is c. 200m to the WNW. (Herity 1987a, 139)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Herity, M. 1987a A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connaught. 3. Ringforts and ecclesiastical sites. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 117, 125-41.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.