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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rathdoony Beg, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rathdoony Beg, 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
Rathdoony Beg
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.11385, -8.51904
SMR number
SL033-039003-

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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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on the spine of a ridge which affords panoramic views. Part of a small barrow cemetery consisting of an adjacent bowl-barrow (SL033-039002-) immediately to E and another larger bowl-barrow (SL033-039001-) c. 30m to S. Excavation in 1993 (Mount 1995a, 81-5) showed that this ring-barrow consisted of a low circular mound (diam. 6m; H 0.5m above fosse) enclosed by a shallow penannular fosse (Wth 0.36m at base, 1.6m at top; D 0.68m) with a low external bank (Wth 1.7m; H 0.25m above original ground level) SE-NE; no fosse or bank existed along the E arc where they respect the fosse and low bank of the adjacent bowl-barrow (SL033-039002-). A number of pits were uncovered in the mound, two of which contained small quantities of bone fragments, and in the base of the fosse at W there was a deposit of charcoal and cremated bone (Mount 1998, 21). A sample of charcoal from one of the pits in the mound was radiocarbon dated to cal. BC 114-71 AD (ibid.).

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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