Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Ballybeg (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.