Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cloonmore (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmore (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dunain
- Coordinates
- 53.59200, -8.68086
- SMR number
- GA017-075----
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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 a low hillock in a wide alluvial valley; streams flow to E and S of the monument which lies 85m N of the td. boundary. A well-preserved conical grassed-over mound of earth and gravel (D 9m, H 2m) as revealed by a small pit on its summit. Some 3m from its base at E is a scarp, with a second one below it a further 2.5m to E. These berm-like features form narrow terraces which curve around E side of the mound from NE to SE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fia1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.