Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Ballinastack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinastack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghdermot
- Coordinates
- 53.63553, -8.53943
- SMR number
- GA006-005001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a tract of flat land in an area of gently sloping pasture. The tomb is eccentrically incorporated in a circular cairn (D c. 10m) which has been reused as a CBG (GA006-005----). A large roofstone rests above a collapsed chamber, aligned E-W, represented by at least four stones. The remains are insufficient to allow classification. (Melvin c. 1971, 8; Ó Nuallain 1989, 142)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.