Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Tawnagh West (killinny Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnagh West (killinny Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.05777, -8.88485
- SMR number
- GA122-133----
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
At the foot of a low hill in flat farmland. This subcircular ring-barrow (25.5m E-W; 22.7m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by an oval central mound (11.3m E-W; H 0.3-0.65m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. A hollow is visible just off-centre in the mound. The external face of the bank has been defaced as a result of the construction of a later field boundary against it. The monument is overgrown with brushwood.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.