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Barrow - ring-barrow

Coolrawer, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Coolrawer, 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
Coolrawer
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.99302, -8.86560
SMR number
SL042-001----

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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)
  • 1841 · 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, with bog to N and S. A slightly raised area (c. 20m N-S; c. 23m E-W) surrounded by a wide fosse (Wth 3.4m) and a broad external earthen bank (Wth 7.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m). The fosse appears in parts to be higher than the surrounding ground level. From N-NNE the earthen bank is evident only as a barely perceptible rise. The bank is narrower and higher for short sections along the E and W arcs. This may be due to disturbance by a lane and farmyard buildings abutting the bank to E and W respectively as shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A depression remains where the farm building once stood. Numerous gaps were noted in the bank. The interior is level and raised at max. 0.45m above the base of the fosse. The barrow is grass-covered and heavily poached by cattle. According to local information, it was used as a children's burial ground (SL042-001001-).

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

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

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