Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Kilturra, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilturra
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02699, -8.60448
- SMR number
- SL038-120001-
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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 low-lying poorly drained pasture, on the W bank of a stream. A low circular platform (22.6m N-S; c. 21m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) from which some stones protrude. Centrally placed on top of this platform is a smaller flat-topped platform (10.8m N-S; 11m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.7m). On the S side of this and visible where the scarp has been eroded, is a quantity (c. 4m E-W) of heat-shattered stones in a dark soil matrix, possibly reused fulacht fia material. The barrow is slightly eroded by the adjacent stream N-NE. A holy well (SL038-120002-), cut into the perimeter of the barrow at SE, is surrounded by a cross-slab (SL038-120003-) and a millstone (SL038-120005-). (Farrelly and Keane 2002, 100-101)
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
References
Farrelly, J. and Keane, M. 2002 New barrow types identified in County Sligo. In M.A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, 97-102. Sligo Field Club.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.