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
- 54.06829, -8.64185
- SMR number
- SL038-015----
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 undulating pasture, just off the top of a low rise. A circular area (diam. 8m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth 3m; D c. 0.5m) and an external earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.7m). The entrance is at E with a causeway across the fosse. The bank is overgrown with blackthorn and hawthorn bushes. This is one of five barrows in the vicinity (SL038-011----; SL038-012----; SL038-013----; SL038-014----).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.