Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06133, -9.52680
- SMR number
- GA120-014----
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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 a small field at NE end of the island. Known locally as 'An Bhluib' (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a subcircular grassed-over mound of earth and stone (E-W 11m, N-S 10m, H 1.6m): a small cairn of loose stone surmounts the top. Mason (1938, 196-7) noted 'a small opening evidently leading to a central chamber', no trace of which is now visible. (Robinson 1980)
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.