Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05280, -9.54838
- SMR number
- GA119-132----
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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
This mound came to light during the course of fieldwork on the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie). It is located on the SW side of the island, immediately to the SE of a boreen, and is in an area of rough grassland with outcropping limestone pavement. The substantial high NE-SW running field/boreen wall cuts across it at NW. The grass-covered mound (13m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE; H 1.3m) is made up of earth and stone and is roughly kidney-shaped in plan with a central hollow. It is overgrown with briars at W but a number of set stones visible here may possibly be part of the inner wall-face of a circular house.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Kiln - kelp dryingunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.