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Mound

Cloran, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Cloran, 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
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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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 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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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

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

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