Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Oran Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oran Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27701, -8.86604
- SMR number
- GA095-101----
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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 low-lying pastureland. Excavated in 1970 by E. Rynne (pers. comm.), this circular ring-barrow (diam. 11m) comprised a low earthen mound (diam. 5.5m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. Three concentrations of cremated bones were uncovered: in the central mound, in the fosse at SW, and in the fosse at NE. Fragments of bronze and over 80 glass beads accompanied the bone at NE, suggesting an Early Iron Age date for the barrow. The monument was destroyed as a result of quarrying n the early 1980s and no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.