Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Cabragh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cabragh (tirerrill By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrigeenaoughter
- Coordinates
- 54.09362, -8.27780
- SMR number
- SL035-037----
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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 a rise in a sheltered hollow. An oval mound (14m N-S; 19.5m E-W; max. H 2.1m), damaged on its N edge by a mechanical digger exposing light brown soil with traces of iron pan. A fragment of metal slag and a charcoal fleck were noted in the soil. A few small limestone stones on the S edge of the mound may be the remains of an enclosing element; a slight trace of a fosse was noted on the W arc.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.