Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Derroon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derroon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10467, -8.51472
- SMR number
- SL033-049----
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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 gently undulating pasture, on a slight W-facing slope. A large roughly circular dome-shaped mound (36m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse and an external earthen bank. The fosse (Wth 4.1m at base; Wth 8.95m at top) is evident all round and is densely overgrown and inaccessible E-W. The bank (int. H 0.85m to base of fosse; ext. H 1.1m) is evident all round, is incorporated into the field boundary system SE-SW and is densely overgrown and inaccessible E-W. The apex of the domed mound is slightly off-centre to S and is 4.1m higher than the top of the fosse. A disused quarry is situated outside the bank at NNE. This barrow appears to be formed around a natural hillock that has been modified to create a large earthwork. A ring-barrow (SL033-048----) lies c. 60m to SW and another (SL033-199----) c. 150m to SW.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.