Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryinver
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58591, -9.97935
- SMR number
- GA010-007----
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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
In a low grassy hillock to S of Tully Lough. Small, poorly preserved rectangular cist (L 0.6m, Wth 0.4m, H 0.25m) roofed by a capstone set c. 0.10m below ground level. This rests on three sidestones and two small stones block the fourth, open side. Known locally as 'a burial ground'. (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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.