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Barrow - ring-barrow

Oran Beg, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Oran Beg, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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