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Barrow - bowl-barrow

Doomore (Corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - bowl-barrow, Doomore, 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
Doomore (Corran By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.09788, -8.46242
SMR number
SL033-104----

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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 pasture, on the top of a drumlin. A large steep-sided conical mound (diam. 21.5m; H 6m) denuded at E, exposing earth and stone. A slight depression (Wth 4m) visible at E may be the remains of a fosse. Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 189) mentioned under the parish of Kilmorgan 'several mounds of earth covering stone graves, in which bones and urns containing ashes have been found, whence it is inferred that a battle was anciently fought here' (SL033-211----). It is not known to which site or sites Lewis was referring but this bowl-barrow and the cairn (SL033-108----), also in Doomore townland, are both in the parish of Kilmorgan.

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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