Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cloran, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloran
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27497, -8.78071
- SMR number
- GA096-064----
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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 undulating pastureland, c. 15m to the W of Clarin River. A roughly circular round-topped grassed-over
earthen mound (diam. c. 18m; H 1.3m). A low bank and fosse cut across it from NNW to SSE and another bank runs ENE from the NE edge. A fulacht fia (GA096-064003-) is visible c. 65m to the SW. (Knox 1916, 5-6; Cody 1989, 293-4 no. 118)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Knox, H.T. 1915-16 Carnfree and Carnabreckna. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 9, 1-33.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.