What is recorded here
In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 26m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) and as a small mound (diam. c. 6m) surrounded by a fosse on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). No visible surface trace survives. Possibly a ring-barrow.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 July 2019
A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BC), associated with burial practices involving a central mound and surrounding ditch. Its presence indicates prehistoric funerary activity in the Moneen West area.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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