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Barrow - ring-barrow

Kilcreevin, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Kilcreevin, 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
Kilcreevin
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.10718, -8.46678
SMR number
SL033-080----

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pasture, in a slight natural depression on the top of a hill. There are excellent views in all directions except towards a hill at WNW. A circular raised area (15m N-S; 15m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m) NNE-W and by a scarp elsewhere. The interior is clear of overgrowth and is undulating, possibly due to quarrying; a quarry hole (4m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.4m) is evident to N of centre. A dump of earth and stone (2m x 2m; H 0.3m) was noted against the internal face of the bank at S. A now disused field drain has been cut against the external face of the bank E-S and sections of a disused field boundary abut the external face of the bank at S and E. While there is no evidence of an internal fosse, the diameter and the location of this site suggest it is a ring-barrow.

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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