Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01244, -8.32395
- SMR number
- GA132-033----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 50m to the W of Dooros burial ground (GA132-013001-). This poorly preserved almost circular flat-topped earthen mound (8m N-S; 7m E-W; H c. 0.6m) is partially obscured by overgrowth and field-clearance rubble. The Ordnance Survey Letters (O'Flanagan 1939, Vol. 2, 515) recorded that, according to local information, 'there was a friary [GA132-013003-] near the graveyard situated at the mound of earth which lies partially effaced in an adjacent field'; the 'mound' referred to may be this barrow, but no visible trace of any building was noted. According to local tradition, burials marked by small headstones existed here. However, no visible surface trace of any survives. Possibly a barrow that was re-used as a children's burial ground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.