Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Grange (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (athlone South By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50748, -8.15556
- SMR number
- RO045-126002-
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 a gently undulating designed landscape at the centre of enclosure (RO045-126001-). Rectangular, grass-covered earth and stone mound (dims of top 6.1m NW-SE; 4.2m NE-SW; dims of base 10m NW-SE; 7.8m NE-SW; H 0.7-0.85m) surrounded by a curving field bank and hedge (Wth c. 2m; H 1m) S-N (diam. c. 90m). Raths (RO045-127----; RO045-128----) are c. 130m to the NE and E respectively.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.