Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cashleen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashleen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58934, -10.01941
- SMR number
- GA009-030----
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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 the summit at NW end of Tully Mountain. Large oval cairn of angular stones and boulders (NW-SE c. 12m, NE-SW c. 8.5m, H c. 3.5m), its base enveloped by blanket bog. The OS 6-inch map (1898) shows a trigonometric point here. Another cairn (GA009-029----) stands at SE end of summit. (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
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.