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Barrow - bowl-barrow

Tobernaveen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - bowl-barrow, Tobernaveen, County Sligo, 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
Tobernaveen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.26067, -8.51127
SMR number
SL014-108----

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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)
  • 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

Timoney (1984, 323, no. 11) describes this as follows: 'The diameter of the this circular bowl-barrow, sited on flat ground, is 6m and it is 1.25m in height. The small flat top is included to the south. There no evidence for a bank or fosse.' (Bergh 1995, 185, Carrowmore 11A with references)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 27 January 2014

References

Timoney, M.A. 1984 Earthen burial sites on the Carrowmore peninsula, Co. Sligo. In G. Burenhult, The archaeology of Carrowmore. Stockholm, 319-25.

Bergh, S. 1995 Landscape of the monuments. Stockholm. Bureau for Archaeological Excavation.

Nearby in the register

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

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