Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Cashel (Tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (Tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leactmarienevrien
- Coordinates
- 53.62749, -8.61931
- SMR number
- GA006-033----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On E-facing slope of a ridge in grassland, 410m SW of Boyounagh graveyard (GA006-030001-). Named in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 81) as 'Leacht Mhaire Ni Thuathail' and described as 'a large ash tree with a carn of stones around its base'. It consists of a small, partially degraded, subrectangular flat-topped mound of earth and stone (N-S 3m, E-W 1.6m, H 1.2m max.). Local tradition states that it was dedicated to a woman who, when being taken to the above graveyard for burial, fell from the shoulders of her pall-bearers at this spot. As a result, the mound was constructed as 'it is a custom in the country to raise a pile of stones on every spot where a corpse was laid down' (ibid.). The ash tree was afterwards planted in her memory by a friend. (Kinght c. 1975, 2-3)
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.