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Barrow - ring-barrow

Ballybeg (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Ballybeg, 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
Ballybeg (Carbury By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.24573, -8.54248
SMR number
SL014-191001-

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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, 322, no. 2) describes this as follows: ‘Sited on top of a drumlin and overgrown with whins, this ring-barrow is 14.50 m in overall diameter. A circular mound, 6.10 m in diameter and 65 cm high, is surrounded by "U"-bottomed fosse, 1.90 m wide and 55 cm deep, and this in turn is surrounded by a bank, 2.30 m wide and 50 cm high. Burenhult (1980:1, 93, 107) includes this within Structure 13, Knocknahur North, recte Ballybeg, a group of five structures, all of which registered very low phosphate values.’

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 28 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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