Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Carnaweeleen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaweeleen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06890, -8.43075
- SMR number
- SL040-003001-
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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 an upland terrace on the lower NE-facing slopes of Kesh Corann Hill. A large mound (20m N-S; 16m E-W), the centre of which has been quarried leaving a rim (H 3m) around a central irregular hollow (diam. 10m). A break at E gives access to the grassed-over quarry pit. The mound appears to be primarily earthen in composition but incorporates some stone. A slight depression NE-SE may indicate a silted-up fosse (Wth 4m). At E, a low berm-like feature between the fosse and the mound may be due to the disturbance of the mound as it is located in the area of the access gap into the quarry pit. A field boundary skirts the base of the mound at W. A circular enclosure (SL040-003002-) lies 2m to N and a rath (SL040-004----) c. 40m to S.
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).
Attached images:
SL040-003001-_01.JPG Barrow (at R) viewed from W, with enclosure (SL040-003002-) beside it (at L)
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.