Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Moyower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockaunsheefin Moat
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockaunsheefin Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.18737, -8.11065
- SMR number
- GA108-204001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
On a gentle W-facing slope in grassland. A poorly preserved subcircular flat-topped earthen mound (base Wth 13.5m N-S; top 2.8m; max. H 1.7m). Hawthorn trees are growing on it at NE, SE and W. According to local information, unbaptised children were buried here (see GA108-204002-); the area underwent extensive field clearance and the mound was formerly surrounded by trees.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 15 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.