Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mullymucks, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullymucks
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66952, -8.22581
- SMR number
- RO035-076----
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
Just off the crest of the W-facing slope of a hill. Subcircular grass-covered mound (dims 27m N-S; 24.2m E-W; H 0.3-0.6m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 5.4m at E to 10.5m at W; Wth of base 2.5-4.4m; D 1.45-1.75m) and a scrub-covered outer bank (Wth 4.5-6.4m; H 0.7-0.9m) which is incorporated into a field bank NE-SE and has been removed SSW-WNW. The W edge of the mound has also been cut back (max. ext. dim. 46m N-S). Pond barrow (RO035-077----) is c. 50m to the NE and embanked barrow (RO035-078----) is c. 60m to the E.
See the attached aerial images from NW (001) and W (004).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.