Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ceathrú An Teampaill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Teampaill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08443, -9.59441
- SMR number
- GA119-053----
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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
Some 60m N of Dún Chonchúir (GA119-054----) immediately S of the road. An irregularly shaped grassy mound of earth and stone (L 13.8m, Wth 6m) noted by Waddell (pers. comm.). This could be the remains of the clochan recorded in OS Letters as 'fifty paces' to N of this fort and described as 'measuring 27 feet [8.25m] in length and 13 [3.95m] in breadth' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 261). (Westropp 1895, 269)
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
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.