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Cairn - wayside cairn

Glassillaun, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - wayside cairn, Glassillaun, 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
Glassillaun
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Monument
Coordinates
53.60960, -9.86366
SMR number
GA010-043----

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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 opposite sides of the road from Tully to Salrock. Two small black circles are indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, c. 250m apart, on S verge of, and slightly to N of, this road. No visible surface trace of either survives. The sites of four other possible ways cairns (GA010-047----; GA010-042----; GA010-044----; GA010-045----) are known along this road. They may have been penitential stations or coffin-halts on the way to the ecclesiastical remains at Salrock (GA010-008001-).

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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