Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Annaghkeen, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.