Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 53.46001, -8.18792
- SMR number
- RO047-088----
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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
At the N edge of a small pond in a low-lying basin. Oval grass-covered earthen mound (dims 8.3m E-W; 5.8m N-S; H 1.5m). It, or the barrow (RO047-058002-) may have been disturbed in the 1950s when 'a jar with bones' was discovered at Bredagh (NMI file).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Topographical Files, National Museum of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.