Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballynaraw South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaraw South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrigeenacreba (Pagan Cemetery)
- Coordinates
- 54.05493, -8.60682
- SMR number
- SL038-067----
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 drumlin. A flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 19.5m at base, 12.5m at top; H 0.95m). According to local tradition, a gallows once stood on the mound. A single fixed stone on top of the mound is all that remains of a cruciform setting of stones which was noted (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney) in 1989.
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
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.