Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballyduffy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyduffy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72888, -8.06730
- SMR number
- RO029-153----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of Slieve Bawn, beneath a Holy Year cross which was erected in 1950. The name Slieve Bawn is derived from Siabh Baghda or Baghdna, and might have originated in the name of the Pagan war goddess Badh (Kelly 2006). It is described locally as a cairn which pre-dated the cross, it is visible as a grass-covered, flat-topped and stony platform (dims of base 8.4m E-W; 8m N-S; dims of top 5.5m NE-SW; 3.5m NW-SE; H 0.1-0.3m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 25 July 2016
References
Kelly, F. 2006 Slieve Bawn. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 10, 106.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.