Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Carrowculleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowculleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59208, -8.77785
- SMR number
- GA017-028----
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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
Beside a stream in low-lying flat marshy terrain. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a small mound (D c. 15m) in an area dotted with hollows. What is visible are a number of low grassed-over mound-like features, possibly natural hummocks or 'eskers' (Topgr. Files, OPW). That shown on OS 6-inch map is a slightly raised circular area (D 25m).
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.