Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Moneen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.15807, -8.75411
- SMR number
- GA114-130----
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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 raised area in flat pastureland. This roughly circular ring-barrow (diam. 52.7m), in fair condition,
comprises a low flat-topped mound (diam. 43.4m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. There are two possible entrances in the bank, at N and S. Other ring-barrows (GA114-132----, GA114-134---- and GA114-135----) lies c. 80m to SSE, c. 200m to SW and c. 310m to the SSW respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.