Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carra (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carra (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.27217, -8.48334
- SMR number
- GA098-051----
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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 marshy grassland, c. 15m to the S of a stream. This subcircular ring-barrow (37m N-S; 35.5m E-W) is definded by a low flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 14.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) which is encircled by a fosse and external bank. Four trackways cut across the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.