Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Lettergesh East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lettergesh East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60560, -9.89596
- SMR number
- GA010-044----
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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 S verge of road from Tully to Salrock. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small open circle. No visible surface trace survives. Five other possible wayside cairns are also known along this road (GA010-047----; GA010-042----; GA010-043----; GA010-045----).
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.