Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Breeoge, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breeoge
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.24170, -8.54017
- SMR number
- SL020-018----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Timoney (1984, 322, no. 6) describes this as follows: ‘The total diameter of this overgrown ring-barrow, sited on the crest of a glacial ridge, is in the region of 19m. It is known locally as "Jenny's Fort". A low flat topped mound, 10m in diameter and not more than 30cm high, is enclosed by a "U'-bottomed fosse, 2.50m wide and 40cm deep, and this in turn-by a bank, 2m wide and 35cm high. Burenhult (1980:1, 95) lists this as Structure 46, Knocknahur North, recte Breeoge. It is within Phosphate Field XIV. Only very small increases of phosphate values were recorded (Burenhult 1980:1, 105).’
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.