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Barrow - mound barrow

Carrowcaslan, County Sligo, Ireland

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Townland
Carrowcaslan
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.25784, -8.75773
SMR number
SL012-107----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In pasture, located in a lowlying hollow, on the S border of a tract of wet, marshy ground. Low, subcircular earthen mound (10.5m N-S; 9.3m E-W; H 1m at W, 1.15m at E). The top of the mound (6.6m N-S; 5.4m E-W) is level. No evidence of an encircling bank or fosse.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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