Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballylion, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylion
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49739, -8.16502
- SMR number
- RO045-241----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular flat-topped and grass-covered earth and stone mound (dims of top 5m N-S; 4.3m E-W; dims of base 7m N-S; 7.4m E-W; H 0.4-0.5m generally to 0.7m at W). It is known locally as the Paupers Plot.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.