Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Aggard Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aggard Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Mote
- Coordinates
- 53.20365, -8.75571
- SMR number
- GA104-009----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an esker ridge, c. 40m to the SW of a rath (GA104-008001-). This circular ring-barrow (diam. 15.7m) is definded by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 6.5m; H 1m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. The centre of the mound has been disturbed and no visible surface trace of the fosse and bank survive from NW through N to SE (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 24, 208, no. 26; 1955, 221; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 190)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.