Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Eyrecourt Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eyrecourt Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20249, -8.11675
- SMR number
- GA108-235----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the NW edge of a low knoll in gently undulating pastureland with good views towards the NW, N and NE. This fairly well-defined subcircular ring-barrow (ext. dims. 29.1m E-W; 26.3m N-S) consists of a gently sloping roughly circular central area (diam. 10.4m N-S; 9.1m E-W) that slopes down very gently from NW to SE (0.3m over a distance of 10m) and which is defined by a shallow flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 0.9m at W; 2.9m at N; D 0.1-0.3m) and by a low outer earthen bank (Wth. 5.2m at S; 6.6m at E; H 0.1-0.2m). A small portion of the outer bank has been dug away, in the past, between ENE and ESE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 31 July 2017
The following image has been uploaded: GA108-235----_01.jpg
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.