Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Somerset, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Somerset
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.24532, -8.22601
- SMR number
- GA100-154----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an esker ridge in undulating pastureland. This circular barrow (diam. 23.5m), in fair condition, is defined by a raised flat-topped mound (diam. 3.2m; base diam. 14.45m; H c. 2m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 1.9-2m). It has been partially quarried out at N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.