Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheraghanrush Or Deer Park
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.28252, -8.38299
- SMR number
- SL015-047002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on level summit of a low elongated E-W orientated hillock, in pasture, 20m to the WSW of a ringbarrow (SL015-047001-). Circular area (diam. 6m) defined by an earthen scarp (ext. H 0.15). At the external foot of the scarp is a fosse (Wth 1.5m). From NW-NE and SSE-SSW the fosse is infilled and barely visible.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.