Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eoghanacht
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14102, -9.77800
- SMR number
- GA110-017001-
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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 limestone terrace c. 20m N of the foot of a scarp, and immediately SE of a later house (GA110-017002-). A large U-shaped mound (WNW-ESE 29.2m, NNE-SSW c. 13-15m) of earth and stone, the terminals of which are up to 1.8m in height. Traces of kerbing are visible on sides of the U-shaped hollow, which opens towards NW. This feature, and the make-up of the mound (small angular pieces of limestone), suggest that, despite the apparent absence of a water source, this monument may be a fulacht fiadh. According to local tradition this is the spot where the builders of Dún Eoghanachta buried their tools after the completion of the fort (pers. comm. T. Robinson). (Robinson 1980)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.