Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Killaraght, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaraght
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.93482, -8.35143
- SMR number
- SL047-083005-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a rise, in undulating rocky pasture and c. 170m NE of a graveyard (SL047-083002-). A low grass-covered circular mound (diam. 6m at base, 2.6m at top; H 0.55m) with a flat top and broadly sloping sides. The mound barrow lies within a field system (SL047-083004-). Another mound (SL047-083006-) occurs c. 400m to SW and a road (SL047-083003-) lies c. 150m to ENE.
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 upload: 30 April 2009
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Hospitalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.