Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Moyveela, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyveela
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.25535, -8.84274
- SMR number
- GA095-092----
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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 a slight rise in low-lying pastureland. This well-preserved circular ring-barrow (overall diam. 19.5m) consists of a central flat-topped mound of earth and stone (diam. 8m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. There is a gap in the bank at E. The area to the N of the monument has been quarried. (McCaffrey 1952, 28, no. 50b; 1955, 224)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2017
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
McCaffrey, P. 1955 The Dunkellin barrow group. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 85, 218-25.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.