Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Urraghry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Urraghry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.29765, -8.27207
- SMR number
- GA087-227----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge running E-W, 150m S of the Ballinure River. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure immediately SE of a tree-planted garden or orchard, while on 3rd ed. (1946) it is shown as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 50m by c. 40m). What survives is a low grass-covered oval stony mound (E-W 17m, N-S 9m, H 1.5 max.), centrally placed within a roughly circular area (D 19m) defined by a low scarp. A causeway (L 21m, Wth 7m) leads off from it to E along the ridge. Traces of a curving bank/scarp are also visible at the base of the ridge from NW through N to E, and from SE through S to SSW. Possibly a landscape feature or a landscaped barrow.
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
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.