Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Highwood, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Highwood
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 54.07148, -8.27171
- SMR number
- SL035-090----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the summit of a low narrow ridge. A low circular convex mound (10.6m N-S; 9.8m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 1.6m) and an external bank (Wth 1.3m; ext. H 0.6m). The fosse is 0.75m below the mound and 0.5m below the bank. The mound is uneven, possibly as a result of digging, and overgrown with nettles and three blackthorn bushes. The mound and bank are both stony; the bank is burrowed into on the E side.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.