Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Caherduff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherduff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17411, -8.76736
- SMR number
- GA104-075----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. According to McCaffrey (1952, 25, no. 136; 1955, 222), this was a circular ring-barrow (diam. 20.5m) defined by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 8.8m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank; the NW half of the monument was destroyed during construction of the railway line which cuts across it from NE to WSW. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.