Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Dangan Lower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan Lower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29077, -9.07855
- SMR number
- GA082-033----
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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 gently sloping land to W of, and overlooking, the River Corrib on NW outskirts of Galway city. An overgrown steep-sided circular mound of earth and stone (D 19.55m, H 2.78m). The top is flat and traces of a shallow fosse (Wth c. 3m) encircle its base. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 288)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.