Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Cloonlooaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlooaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59293, -10.01111
- SMR number
- GA009-010----
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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
On N side of a valley c. 3km SE of Renvyle. The monument is greatly disturbed and is partly incorporated in an animal pen. It comprises the ruins of a chamber aligned NW-SE. The entrance, at SE, is marked by a tall portal stone flanking a doorstone. A sidestone, partly overlapping the portal, leans out to SW and a large upright slab, probably a displaced roofstone, leans against it. A second flat roofstone, to NW, overlies another large slab. The NE side of the monument is missing; an old field fence abuts the entrance on this side. While the precise design cannot be established with certainty, the monument appears to be of the portal-tomb class.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.