Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Bookeen South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bookeen South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25234, -8.62710
- SMR number
- GA097-024----
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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
Within a forestry plantation, c. 3m to the W of a stream. This oval flat-topped earthen mound (27m N-S;
21.7m E-W; H 1.8m), with steeply sloping sides, is composed of earth. Trees have been planted on it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.