Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Ballinvally West, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally West
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.05355, -8.63866
- SMR number
- SL038-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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, just off the crest of a drumlin. Described as an oval mound (16.8m N-S; 13m E-W; H 2.4m), domed in profile, with a 'slight bevel' towards the bottom at the E edge; faint traces of a fosse (Wth 1m) were noted along the E arc and where the grass cover had been removed the mound appeared to be composed of clay (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly). A rath (SL038-058----) lies c. 50m to NNW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.