Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Gorteen (carrownagur Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (carrownagur Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59297, -8.71891
- SMR number
- GA017-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A hachured area marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and named 'Gravel Pit' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), proved on inspection in 1985 to be a hollow overgrown with trees, at the centre of which was a dried-up pond.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.