Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Barrinagh (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
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-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.