Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Caltragh (killeany Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh (killeany Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44892, -9.05351
- SMR number
- GA056-046----
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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. The OS 6-inch maps show a large subcircular field (c. 100m by c. 90m) on S boundary of the td., the NW quadrant of which is occupied by farm buildings. Little of it now survives and the remaining sections comprise only slightly curving modern boundaries. According to local information, there was a 'mound' in the centre of this field which when levelled was found to contain 'six pillars', possibly marking a 'grave'. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.