Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Brierfield, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brierfield
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73465, -8.27176
- SMR number
- RO028-242001-
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
Towards the E end of a broad E-W ridge with a hill rising to the NE, and c. 400m from Shad Lough to the SE. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 6m N-S; 5.8m E-W; H 0.05m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7m; Wth of base 2-3.8m; D 0.3-0.4m) (max. ext. diam. 19m N-S; 18.3m E-W). Ditch-barrow (RO028-242002-) is 10m to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.