Barrow - bowl-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

In a slight hollow on an undulating landscape. This is a round-topped, oval, hazel-covered mound (dims of top 10.9m E-W; 10.5m N-S; dims of base 45m N-S; 33m E-W; H 3.6m at E to 4.8m at S) separated by a berm (Wth 4-5m) from a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6.4-8.8m; Wth of base 2-3m; int. D 1.7-2.4m; ext. D 0.5-1m). There is a slight earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2-0.4m) planted with whitethorn on the inner edge of the fosse, which survives S-NW and NE-SE (max. ext. dims 71m N-S; 61.3m E-W). The perimeter is quarried at SSW (diam. c. 9m), N-NE and at ENE.
An oval overgrown subcircular mound (RO032-009004-) (dims of base c. 25m ENE-WSW; 19.8m NNW-SSE; H 3m) extends out from the inner bank at ENE, and may be spoil from the quarries, although it has been interpreted as a bailey, and the barrow as a motte (Knox 1911a, 307-310; Graham 1988b, 26). Field system (RO032-009002-) is immediately to the NW, and rath (R032-008001-) is c. 80m to the NE. (Doran 2005, 377)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.

Doran, L. 2005 Aspects of Anglo-Norman secular settlement in Longford and Roscommon c. 1300. The Irish Sword 24, 361–410.

Graham, B.J. 1988b Medieval settlement in county Roscommon. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88C (2), 19-38.