Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Glencraff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencraff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57683, -9.74308
- SMR number
- GA011-002----
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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 N side of Glencraff valley. The monument consists of a small wedge-shaped chamber, aligned E-W (L 1.75m, Wth 1m at the broader open, W end). It is formed of three stones and covered by a single roofstone which slopes down slightly from W to E. The remains can be interpreted as E end of a wedge-tomb.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.