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Barrow - ring-barrow

Runnabackan, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Runnabackan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.67821, -8.32176
SMR number
RO034-071----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small mound (diam. c. 10m), and situated on a slight rise at the crest of the N-facing slope of a broad W-E spur. This is a circular, domed and grass-covered mound (diam. 22.5m N-S; 21m E-W; H 0.25m). Geophysical survey (09R145) confirms that it was a mound (diam. c. 8m), possibly with a central pit, enclosed by a fosse (ext. diam. c. 12-15m) and outer bank (max. ext. diam. c. 25m), which may have had an entrance at SW (Barton 2009). Archaeological testing (09E0525) outside a buffer zone ((Wth c. 30m) failed to produce any related material (Morahan 2012). Moated site (RO034-070----) is c. 40m to the NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Barton, K. 2009 Pre-planning archaeological impact assessment for the proposed development of a GAA centre at Runnabackan, Co. Roscommon. Landscape and Geophysical Services. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Consent no. 09R145.

Morahan, L. 2012 Runabackan: various. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 185-6, No. 713. Dublin. Wordwell.

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