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Barrow - unclassified

Achonry, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Achonry, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Achonry
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Megalithic Monument (Site of)
Coordinates
54.06990, -8.63758
SMR number
SL038-017----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on a low rise on a S-facing slope. A circular slightly raised area (int. diam. c. 7m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.55m). A small hole was recently dug in the centre and there is a small quarry immediately to SW. The S portion of the interior is raised c. 0.45m to compensate for the hillslope. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure but inadvertently named 'Megalithic Monument (Site of)' on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map. The OS Name Books of the 1941-2 survey noted that the name applied to 'an ancient mound site of a Giants Grave' (Ó Nualláin 1989, 99, no. 26).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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