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Burial mound

Annaghkeen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial mound, Annaghkeen, 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
Annaghkeen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44795, -9.18715
SMR number
GA055-006----

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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

On a slight NW-facing slope in gently rolling pastureland. A low partially destroyed earthen mound (ENE-WSW 21.8m, NNW-SSE c. 16.5m, H 0.9m). When examined in 1924 (Costello 1924a, 110), it was a substantial circular mound (D 15m, H 2m) with a cairn-like core, beneath which was a cist (N-S; L 1.2m, Wth 1m) standing on the old ground surface. This contained the unburnt bones of an adult male and a child, an Irish Bowl and an oddly shaped pebble. A second cist lay at NE edge of the mound but without any capstone. This was reported as having contained 'some fragments of bones'. A cairn (GA055-001001-) stands 410m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-011----) stood 110m to WSW. (Costello 1924b, 173; Waddell 1975, 11-12; 1990, 89-90)

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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