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Barrow - ring-barrow

Grange (Athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Grange, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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