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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49974, -8.95333
- SMR number
- GA043-020----
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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. Excavated in 1937 (Willmot 1939, 121-40), the monument then consisted of a low earthen mound (D c. 12m) with a cairn-like core. It was surrounded by a substantial rock-cut fosse. The excavation revealed a layer of charcoal and cremated bone in the centre of the mound, beneath which was an oval pit-grave (L 0.9m, Wth 0.7m) containing the cremated remains of a male adult accompanied by a small bronze knife or razor. Four secondary unprotected skeletal burials were found in the fosse at N, one of which was accompanied by a bronze locket and twelve bone beads. A slight grassed-over mound marks the spot. (Waddell 1975, 13; 1977, 60; 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.