Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Grange (ballintober South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (ballintober South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73237, -8.25237
- SMR number
- RO028-248----
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 bottom of a NW-facing slope. Grass-covered but poached oval mound (dims 10m NE-SW; 8.4m NW-SE; H 1.2-1.5m), from which St Patrick preached while travelling from Ogulla (RO022-106----) to Oran (RO034-080----), according to local tradition.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.