Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Seafield, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seafield
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.24437, -8.54123
- SMR number
- SL014-196----
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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. 4) describes this as follows: ‘The total diameter of this ring-barrow, sited on flat ground, is 15 m. A circular mound, 5 m in diameter and 40 cm high, is surrounded by a "U"-bottomed fosse 2.70 m wide and 35 cm deep and this in turn by a bank 2.30 m wide and 40 cm high. The south side of the bank has been disturbed by the building of a modern field bank. The developments of the field mentioned above under Seafield I have caused the removal of the top part of the bank and the barrow-proper for most of the northwest third of the monument. Burenhult (1980:1, 93, 107) includes this within Structure 13, Knocknahur North, recte Seafield, 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
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