Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Mountross, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountross
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43096, -9.11950
- SMR number
- GA055-060001-
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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 farmland overlooking E shore of Lough Corrib. This monument consists of a subcircular drystone platform (E-W 11.7m, N-S 10.5m, H 2.3m max.) delimited by stone revetment, partially collapsed on W side. A series of steps at SE give access to the summit. Just N of the centre is a much-collapsed rectangular stone structure (N-S 3.4m, E-W 3m, H 1.5m max.) defined by a slightly battered drystone revetment. There are four steps on its E side. An earthwork (GA055-060002-) lies immediately to NE, and a ringfort (GA055-058----) 70m to SW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.