Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Belmont, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belmont
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monument
- Coordinates
- 53.61580, -8.96948
- SMR number
- GA015-017001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope in grassland overlooking a bog to E. Named on OS 6-inch maps as 'Monument' and indicated by a tiny open circle. What is visible is a low grassed-over oval mound of earth (NNE-SSW 10m, ESE-WNW 6m). The summit is rounded and stands up to 1.5m in height. A trackway, running N-S, clips the monuments on E side. Possibly a tumulus, but the site name suggests a relatively modern stone structure. This is probably the 'low mound' referred to by Knox (1911a, 109).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.