Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Mountkelly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountkelly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60391, -8.54591
- SMR number
- GA018-051001-
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
In undulating grassland, immediately NE of the site of Glennamaddy Union Workhouse. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 39m) defined by a bank and external fosse from NW through N to ENE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts the monument at SSE and SW. The interior is flat and featureless. On 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933), the words 'Burial Ground (Disused)' appear adjacent to this monument but this is more likely to have been associated with the workhouse than the ringfort. (Knight c. 1975, 112)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.