Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Grange (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49992, -8.16846
- SMR number
- RO044-077----
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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
On a gentle S-facing slope in a fold with sligthly higher ground to the NW and E. Subcircular scrub-covered platform (dims of top 12.7m E-W; 9.4m N-S; dims of base 16.8m E-W; 15m N-S) defined by a low bank (Wth 2.5-5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) and hedge NW-NE and at S, and by a scarp at E (H 1.3m) and W (H 0.6m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but field banks in the vicinity, except an E-W one 5m to the N, have been removed. Ring-barrow (RO042-076----) is c. 195m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.