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Barrow - unclassified

Carrowmore (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Carrowmore, 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
Carrowmore (Carbury By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.24606, -8.51787
SMR number
SL014-209042-

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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, 324, no. 14) describes this as follows: ‘This oval bowl-barrow, sited on gently sloping ground, measures 17.25m northnorthwest/southsoutheast by 15m and it is 1.40m high. There is no evidence for a bank or fosse and the edges of the base of the barrow have been squared by ploughing. Though this monument lies on flat ground southwest of no. 27 [SL014-209049-] it is not marked on the Ordnance Survey maps nor has it been referred to by any writer prior to 1980. Burenhult (1980:1, 97) lists this as Barrow 1, Carrowmore. See also Kitchin (1983. 168, "unrecorded").’

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.

Kitchin, F.T. 1983 The Carrowmore megalithic cemetery, Co. Sligo. Proceedings of the prehistoric society 49, 151-75.

Nearby in the register

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

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