Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballyara Or Falduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyara Or Falduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05561, -8.75583
- SMR number
- SL037-042----
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 top of a low rise. A grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 7.5m; H 1.5m), partially poached by cattle. A trigonometrical station was indicated on top of the mound on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. A circular enclosure (SL037-043001-) lies c. 100m to SE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.