Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rathconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carraun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69038, -8.21899
- SMR number
- RO035-035002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the W end of an E-W ridge. D-shaped, overgrown platform (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 7m E-W; H 0.3m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.35m) and outer bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.2m). The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field wall at E, and does not survive SE of this. There is an entrance in the bank and a causeway (Wth 2.5m) at NW (max. ext. diam. 20.5m NE-SW). Ring-barrow (RO035-035001-) is c. 20m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.