Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12738, -9.76279
- SMR number
- GA110-040----
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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. 450m SSW of Teampall Mac Duagh (GA110-044001-). A roughly rectangular grassed-over mound of earth and stone (L 15m, Wth 8.8m, H 1.2m). An animal-pen has been built on the summit and two stone walls extend from it.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.