Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Derroon, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derroon
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10344, -8.51655
- SMR number
- SL033-199----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture, on the top of and on the W edge of a ridge. A subcircular flat area (diam. 7.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.6m) with the remains of an external earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.4m). There is a causeway (Wth 2m) across the fosse at NE. The barrow is overgrown with furze bushes. A ring-barrow (SL033-048----) is c. 100m to ENE and a bowl-barrow (SL033-049----) c. 150m to NE.
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 - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.