Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carrigan More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigan More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53191, -8.08281
- SMR number
- RO045-092----
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 only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight NE-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass and moss-covered mound with a dished top (diam. of base 14m NE-SW; 13.4m NW-SE; dims of top 6.2m NE-SW; 4.3m NW-SE; H 1m at SW to 1.4-1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.9-2.2m; D 0.3-0.8m) from an outer bank (Wth of base 3.5-4.2m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m). There is no visible entrance and the outer bank is truncated slightly by a NW-SE lane at W (max. ext. diam. 26.4m NW-SE).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.