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Mound

Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Inis Oírr, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inis Oírr
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05581, -9.53685
SMR number
GA120-038----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 monument came to light during the course of fieldwork on the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie). It is on level ground in the centre of the island. It consists of a grass-covered well-defined mound (14.3m NE-SW; 10.45m E-W) which is horse-shoe shaped in plan and occupies almost the full width of the N half of the field in which it is located. A collapsed field wall runs across it from E to W. The mound opens to the WNW (Wth 7.5m). It is highest and steepest at N (H 1.6m); at S it is more gently rounded in profile (H 1.4m at SW). While the appearance of the mound is suggestive of a fulacht fia, it is more likely to be the remains of a settlement mound, possibly a round house. Another mound (GA120-037----) lies c. 45m to the SW.

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.

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