Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Deechomade, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deechomade
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06345, -8.55434
- SMR number
- SL039-011----
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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 rough pasture, on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Described as a raised oval area (18m N-S; 16.2m E-W) enclosed by a broad shallow fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.25m) with an external earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m); some stones are evident in the bank composition (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly). The bank is incorporated into a field boundary along the W arc. A barrow (SL039-009----) lies c. 230m to NW and a mound barrow (SL039-010----) c. 170m to W. A cairn (SL040-008----) on Kesh Corann Hill is visible in the distance to E.
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 - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.