Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Shigaunagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shigaunagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10111, -8.89781
- SMR number
- GA122-128----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a ridge in pastureland. This poorly preserved circular ring-barrow (diam. 22m) comprises a central mound (diam. c. 8m; H 1.12-1.18m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. There is a possible entrance gap at WSW. The monument is overgrown with trees.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.