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Barrow - ring-barrow

Onagh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Onagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Onagh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.41515, -8.15630
SMR number
RO051-022----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Just S of the summit of Sheep Hill which has a trig. station The name of this hill was recorded in Irish by John O'Donovan in the 1830s as Cnoc Loinge - Ship hill (Herity 2010, 15). The barrow is a circular grass-covered mound containing some stone (diam. 3.8m; H 0.1-0.3m) and with a slight hollow (diam. 1.7m) defined by a slight fosse (Wth of base 0.6m; ext. D 0.2-0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 2m; H 0.1m) (max. ext. diam. 9m). The possible rath (RO051-021----) is c. 100m to the E and wayside cross (RO051-023----) is c. 80m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Herity, M. (ed.) 2010 Ordnance Survey Letters, Roscommon. Dublin, Fourmasters Press

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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