Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Lackan (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16243, -8.76987
- SMR number
- GA114-110----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 hummock in gently undulating grassland. This poorly preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. c. 19.7m)
comprises a central platform surrounded by a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.4m) and a low denuded external earthen bank. The W half of the monument has been almost completely levelled.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.