Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cloonlooaun,derryinver,letter More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlooaun,derryinver,letter More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58378, -10.00490
- SMR number
- GA009-029----
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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
At the highest point of Tully Mountain (1172ft OD), c. 1.6km SW of GA009-030----. Small circular cairn of angular stone (D c. 6m, H c. 1-1.5m). Its top is at present flat but is probably truncated by the small 19th-c OS cairn and modern trigonometric point. (Gibbons and Higgins 1988d, 64, 66)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.