What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, bowl-barrow in Doomore (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The large steep-sided conical mound rises twenty-one and a half metres across and six metres high on a drumlin in pasture, though its eastern edge is denuded to expose earth and stone. A slight four-metre-wide depression at the east may remain from a fosse, while Lewis wrote in 1837 that several mounds in Kilmorgan contained bones and ash urns, leading him to infer an ancient battle.

In pasture, on the top of a drumlin. A large steep-sided conical mound (diam. 21.5m; H 6m) denuded at E, exposing earth and stone. A slight depression (Wth 4m) visible at E may be the remains of a fosse. Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 189) mentioned under the parish of Kilmorgan 'several mounds of earth covering stone graves, in which bones and urns containing ashes have been found, whence it is inferred that a battle was anciently fought here' (SL033-211----). It is not known to which site or sites Lewis was referring but this bowl-barrow and the cairn (SL033-108----), also in Doomore townland, are both in the parish of Kilmorgan. 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

Bowl barrow, dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1500 BCE). It is significant as a rare surviving example of a prehistoric burial monument in the region, reflecting early ceremonial and funerary practices.

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