Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Toberacreggaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberacreggaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.17611, -8.78062
- SMR number
- GA104-271001-
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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 reclaimed pastureland. This is an oval grassed-over earthen mound (21m E-W; 14m N-S; H 1.8m), in fair condition, with some stone protruding through the soil cover. There is a natural well, enclosed by a drystone wall, in the W half of it. McCaffrey (1952, 19, 251, no. 135a) classified the mound as a 'Tumulus (?)'. Its antiquity is uncertain. It is shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed tree-ring. Possibly a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.