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
- 53.15692, -8.75685
- SMR number
- GA114-134----
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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 flat pastureland. This poorly preserved overgrown ring-barrow (diam. 25m) comprises a central platform (diam. c. 13m; H 0.9-1m) surrounded by a fosse. In 1953 Duignan (SMR file) noted traces of a ‘bank demolished in places’; no visible surface trace survives. The interior is planted with coniferous trees. A number of field-clearance spoil heaps have been piled along the edge of fosse. Other ring-barrows (GA114-130----, GA114-132---- and GA114-135----) lie c. 200m to the NE, c. 260m to the ENE and c. 90m to the SW respectively.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.