Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Oyster Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oyster Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.30163, -8.56637
- SMR number
- SL008-100----
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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Straddling summit of a slight E-W orientated ridge, in gently undulating pasture, on Oyster Island between Coney Island and Rosses Point. Originally circular but now consists of a roughly D-shaped, flat-topped mound (dims. top 6m N-S; 5m E-W; base 12.2m N-S; 11.6m E-W; H 1.45m) of earth and stone. There is no fosse visible at ground level. The mound is best preserved NW-SE where it has regular gently sloping sides. From SW-NW the edge of the mound has been removed leaving a steep modern crescent shaped cut. From SE-SW the edge of the mound has been eroded to form a level terrace (max. Wth 1m) half way down the side.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.