What is recorded here

Ardranny Beg holds a subcircular grassy mound twenty-five metres wide and three metres high, rising above low-lying Galway farmland. Maps called it a fort, but local tradition remembers burial, suggesting people placed their dead beneath the soil rather than building walls to keep invaders out. Animals now erase the northern edge, returning the mound to the landscape that first received it.

On a rise in low-lying farmland. Named 'Fort' on OS Fair Plan and marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947) as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). What is visible is a subcircular grassy earthen mound (N-S 25.1m, H 3.65m max.) in fair condition, apart from N section which is being severely eroded by animals. According to local tradition, this was a place of burial; possibly a tumulus. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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