Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Monksfield, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monksfield
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17863, -8.73310
- SMR number
- GA104-210----
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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 pastureland. A well-preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. 24.7m) comprising a low flat-topped mound (diam. c. 11m; H 0.9m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. No visible surface trace of the bank survives at SW as a result of quarrying (McCaffrey 1952, 28, no. 146; 1955, 224). Field-clearance material has been dumped on it in the SE sector.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
References
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.