Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Mount Talbot, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount Talbot
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mound
- Coordinates
- 53.53299, -8.28480
- SMR number
- RO044-005----
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
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope c. 450m from the River Suck to the NW and SW and planted with deciduous trees within the demesne of Mount Talbot. Oval mound (dims. 19.5m E-W; 14m N-S; H 3.2-3.6m) with an oval summit (dims. 4.5m E-W; 1.5m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.