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Megalithic tomb - portal tomb

Cloonlooaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, Cloonlooaun, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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