Mote, mound in County Galway (GA084-007----)

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What is recorded here

On the highest point of an E-W running esker ridge. A small subcircular mound (7.5m N-S; 6.5m E-W; H 1.3m), threatened by quarrying, was excavated by Rynne (1985, 24). It consisted of a 'cairn-like core covered with earth and stones and contained within a low, rough kerb forming three sides of a square, open on the NE side'. Finds included animal bones, oyster shells, iron, bronze and glass fragments and a decorated bone plaque. Rynne (ibid.) proposed a late-medieval date for this 'enigmatic structure', of which no visible surface trace survives. (Knox 1917-18, 119-20, no. 22I; Cody 1989, 380-81, no. 165) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 July 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA084-007

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Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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