Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Dunkellin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunkellin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.20970, -8.84710
- SMR number
- GA103-121----
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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
On a rise in undulating pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 18, no. 96a) as a 'Simple, round, flat-topped' barrow and described as a ‘slightly elliptical’ mound ‘28 feet x 26 feet overall and 3 feet high [8.5m by 7.9m; H 0.9m]’. A number of large boulders were embedded in it, particularly near its base. On inspection in December 1982 the mound was obscured by field-clearance rubble.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.