Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Curraghalaher,knockanyconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghalaher,knockanyconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54400, -8.05463
- SMR number
- RO045-054----
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. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low-lying karst landscape overlooking a basin to the W. A subcircular grass-covered mound (dims 28m N-S; 24.5m E-W; H 0.8m at S to 1.7m at N) is separated by a berm (Wth 6m at N to 13m at E) from a drystone field wall and townland boundary with Curraghalaher SSW-NW, an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-N, and a low scarp (H 0.2m) N-E. The portal tomb (RO045-043001-) and cist (RO045-053002-) are c. 40m to the NE. It may be a passage tomb, and the description of a cist (RO045-239----) discovered at Lecarrow in 1923 may be from this monument.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.