Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballylion, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylion
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49594, -8.15861
- SMR number
- RO045-163----
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 rise on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 28m NE-SW; 26.5m NW-SE) with a flat top (diam. of top 9.8m NE-SW; 8.2m NW-SE; H 1.4-2m). It may be natural.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.