Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Carraun (tireragh By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carraun (tireragh By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.14932, -9.09002
- SMR number
- SL022-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pasture, located on level gently elevated ground, in an area of undulating terrain. Low, circular grass-covered earthen platform (diam. 13m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE) defined by a levelled bank. The bank appears as a well-defined scarp (ext. H 0.3-0.35m) with a very low internal rim (Wth c. 2m) which is almost flush with internal ground level. The scarp is highest (ext. H 0.45m at W) at W–NW, and lowest at NNE-E. At E there is a very low area or gap (Wth 2m). A slight dip in ground level is evident outside the bank at NE but it is not possible to be certain if this is evidence of an encircling fosse. The interior is level and featureless.
Attached image (SL022-026----_1) shows barrow from SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 11 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.