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Barrow - unclassified

Knocknahur North, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Knocknahur North, 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
Knocknahur North
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.24178, -8.53742
SMR number
SL020-019002-

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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, 323, no. 8) describes this as follows: ‘The total diameter of this barrow on flat ground is 20 m. The central area, which is at the same level as the surrounding field, is 8.40 m in diameter. There is a slight bank, 2.70 m wide and 10 cm high, on the edge of this area. There is a flat-bottomed fosse, 3.20 m wide and 20 cm deep. There is no evidence for an outer bank. Burenhult (1980:1, 97) lists this as Structure 70, Knocknahur North. It produced very low phosphate levels which argues against it being a hut site.’

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

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

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