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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rathgran, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rathgran, 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
Rathgran
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.14516, -8.60010
SMR number
SL025-129----

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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

In undulating pasture, on top of a NE-SW ridge. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.9m) with traces of a possible internal fosse (Wth c. 1.5m) evident NNW-SE. The overall diameter is 23.2m E-W. The bank is uniform, overgrown with hawthorn bushes and incorporated into a field boundary SSE-SSW. The interior is a low flattened dome-shape with gently sloping sides most clearly defined W-SE. Field boundaries lie immediately to the E of the barrow and there is a steep slope immediately to E and S.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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