What is recorded here
Indicated is a barrow, bowl-barrow in Carraun (leyny By., Tobercurry Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low but prominent rise in pasture as a circular flat-topped mound reaching four metres in height. Local information says the eastern edge was dug into prior to 1900.
In pasture, on top of a low but prominent rise. A circular flat-topped mound (diam. c. 20m at base, c. 4.7m at top; H 4m). According to local information, the E edge of the mound was dug into prior to 1900.
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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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