Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Glassillaun, County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.