Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Abbeyland South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mote
- Coordinates
- 53.61795, -8.73915
- SMR number
- GA017-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On NW extremity of a glacial ridge, on E outskirts of Dunmore town (GA017-002----): the Sinking River flows past to NE and the old fair green lies a short distance to NW. A small well-preserved mound, roughly circular in plan and conical in profile (D 6m, H c. 1.8m). Traces of a low linear bank and shallow fosse are visible running along the ridge summit to SE. According to Bradley and Dunne (1992, 70), this mound 'seems to be the remains of a barrow'. They also express the opinion that the linear bank may be part part of 'a hollow way leading up to it ... the north side ... formed by a scrap, the south by a bank'.
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
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.