Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
An Cárán,mullach Otraigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cárán,mullach Otraigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.37909, -8.93268
- SMR number
- GA070-018----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 level grassland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 37.8m) comprising a central platform (D 17.1m int.) encircled by a wide fosse and external bank. The surface of the platform is uneven and there are faint traces of a possible internal bank from S to W. There are also faint traces of a possible causeway across the fosse at SSE and the tradition of a spring well in its base at SE. The monument is locally referred to as a 'burial ground'.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.