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
- 53.05546, -9.53736
- SMR number
- GA120-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This well-defined grass-covered mound came to light during the course of fieldwork on the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie). It is located in the angle of a field wall in an area of level rough grassland. The mound (11.7m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H 1.3-1.7m) is made up of earth and stone and it may have extended a further 3-4m further to the SW where slight traces of it are evident on either side of the NW-SE running field wall. A slight curve in the wall at this point may reflect this. A number of set limestone slabs protruding from it at SW may be outer wall-facing. Another mound (GA120-038----) lies c. 45m to the NE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 December 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.