Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Carrowbeg North (claretuam Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbeg North (claretuam Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mary Skerretts Mount
- Coordinates
- 53.49794, -8.94690
- SMR number
- GA043-019----
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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 esker in undulating grassland. Excavated in 1937 (Willmot 1939, 121-4), it consisted of a small earthen mound (D c. 16m, H 2.2m) built on a low natural knoll. It was encircled by a shallow fosse. The excavation revealed a small central 'hollow' (D 0.3m) containing the cremated remains of an adult and some animal bones. Some 0.6m to S was a short cist (WNW-ESE; L 0.65m, Wth 0.3m, H 0.55m) containing the cremated bones of an adult and a plano-convex knife. The monument was subsequently destroyed by quarrying. See also GA043-094----. (Waddell 1990, 90-92)
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.