Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Derryglad, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryglad
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47027, -8.08294
- SMR number
- RO048-080----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 469-8), and situated on the crest of a small N-S esker ridge. Circular overgrown earthen mound (diam. of base 14.9m N-S; 14.8m E-W; H 1.8m) which is slightly truncated NE-SE, with a silted fosse (at SW: Wth of top 4m; max. D 0.6m) SSW-W-NNE (max. ext. diam. 23m). Archaeological testing (04E0458) immediately to the NE in Gortnasythe produced no related archaeological material (Rooney 2007b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Rooney, F. 2007b Gortnasythe: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 377-8, No. 1459. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.