Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Rathbarran, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbarran
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mass Rock
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carriganaffrin
- Coordinates
- 54.15392, -8.60545
- SMR number
- SL025-071003-
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
Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Mass Rock'. In the fosse at the NNE of Rathbarran barrow (SL025-071001-) is a large boulder (1.3m x 1.4m; H 0.75m). It is known by the people in the locality as a mass-rock. The classification mass-rock is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.