Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - stepped barrow
Grannagh (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grannagh (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.14313, -8.72964
- SMR number
- GA114-087----
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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 undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) with a central mound is shown. On inspection a well-preserved circular earthwork (diam. c. 10m) comprising a low platform of earth and stone with a small circular raised area (diam. c. 2m) at its centre was visible; possibly a mound barrow. A series of hollows and trenches surrounding the monument appeared to be modern. Quarrying had occurred on its S side.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.