Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Toberdan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberdan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53621, -8.07010
- SMR number
- RO045-048001-
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
On the W-facing crest of a small NW-SE ridge on a broad plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 20.7m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) incorporated into a field bank with scrub E-S-W and reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere. Three stones from a cist (RO045-048002-) (dims 1.2m x 0.9m; H 0.5-0.7m) are exposed at the centre. Mound barrow (RO045-047----) is c. 75m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 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.