Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Aggard More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aggard More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21480, -8.75064
- SMR number
- GA104-012----
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
In level marshy land within the former demesne of Aggard House. This well-preserved circular ring-barrow
(diam. 22m) is defined by a flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 14m; H 0.67-1.5m) encircled by a shallow fosse. There is a slight depression in the N sector.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.