Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Achonry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Achonry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06795, -8.64844
- SMR number
- SL038-011----
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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 gentle E-facing slope, immediately W of SS. Nathy and Brigid Catholic church. A circular earthen mound (diam. 8.5m; H 0.4m) with a central circular flat-bottomed depression (diam. c. 3m; D 0.5m). The mound is surrounded by a fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2m) with an external earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; ext. H 0.4m). There are entrances at NE (Wth 2.5m) and WSW (Wth 1.8m) with causeways across the fosse. An E-W field boundary tops the bank along the S arc. A ditch barrow (SL038-012----) lies c. 250m to NE, a ring-barrow (SL038-015----) c. 420m to E and two possible barrows (SL038-013----; SL038-014----) c. 480m to NE and c. 350m to ESE respectively.
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 - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.