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Mound

Barrinagh (Castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Barrinagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barrinagh (Castlereagh By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.70959, -8.69257
SMR number
RO032-009004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

In a low-lying position attached to the NE of bell-barrow (RO032-009001-). An oval overgrown mound (dims of base c. 25m ENE-WSW; 19.8m NNW-SSE; H 3m) extends from the inner bank of the barrow at ENE, and may be spoil from the quarries around the barrow, although it has been interpreted as a bailey, and the barrow as a motte (Knox 1911, 307-310; Graham 1988b, 26).

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.

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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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