Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Bredagh (athlone South By., Turrock Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bredagh (athlone South By., Turrock Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45539, -8.19083
- SMR number
- RO047-058017-
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 the summit of a WNW-ESE esker ridge. Grass-covered circular stoney platform (diam. of top 10.8m E-W; H 0.3-0.8m) with a few spaced kerbstones laid circumferentially and a slight outer fosse (Wth of base 1m; D 0.1m) which is reduced to a berm (Wth 1m) at N, at the edge of the ridge. A conical cairn (diam. 3.7-4m; surviving H 0.8m) with a flush outer face is at the centre of the platform, but the top of the cairn is missing. This cairn, or the mound, might be the feature that was disturbed in the 1950s (RO047-088----) when 'a jar with bones' was discovered (NMI file). It was disturbed by quarrying more recently and the S part of the platform to the edge of the central cairn has been removed. The possible barrow (RO047-058016-) is 8m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Topographical Files, National Museum of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.