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Burial mound

Carrowbeg North (Claretuam ED), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial mound, Carrowbeg North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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.

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