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Barrow - mound barrow

Carrowreagh (Corran By., Toomour ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Carrowreagh, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowreagh (Corran By., Toomour ED)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.03022, -8.42405
SMR number
SL040-149001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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, on top of a low rise. A circular mound (7m NE-SW; 7.4m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) kerbed with sod-covered upright stones. The kerbstones are mostly contiguous or close-set, though there are some gaps and a few project slightly above the level of the mound. The top of the mound is slightly sunken. Conjoined at NE is another mound (SL040-149002-). The junction of the two mounds is barely perceptible and is marked by two kerbstones which barely project above the sod. The S and SE edges of both barrows are obscured by overgrowth.

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).

Revised: P. Walsh

Date of revision: 30 April 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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