Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Knocknahur North, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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, 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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.