Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
Conagher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Conagher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64096, -8.86119
- SMR number
- GA004-015----
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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
Close to S bank of the Dalgin River in an extensive tract of bogland. In the course of deep ploughing the bog during land reclamation, a local farmer came across what he described as a roadway (Wth 2.5m) paved with thin sandstone slabs. This lay c. 0.3m below the surface of the bog but at least 1m of the bog had already been removed. Uncovered at various points over a distance of 200-300m, it followed a roughly E-W axis. A horizontal watermill (GA004-016----) lies c. 100m to ENE.
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
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.