Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Seefin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seefin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19774, -8.69570
- SMR number
- GA104-267001-
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 a gentle E-facing slope in grassland. Known locally as ‘Muilleann Sidhe’ (McCaffrey 1952, 251, no. 51). This roughly circular flat-topped mound (diam. 6m; H c. 1m) is revetted by a single course of large limestone blocks at its base. The E sector has been disturbed and some bone (human?) projects through the soil. McCaffrey (ibid., no. 51a) also located a house to this spot - see GA104-267002-.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.