Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Eskeromullacaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskeromullacaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62067, -8.59329
- SMR number
- GA018-016----
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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
In undulating grassland. Known locally as 'Cloch an Bhreithínas' (Judgement Stone), it consists of a large rectangular recumbent limestone boulder (L 2.1m, Wth 2m, H 0.6m). During Cromwellian times, people who were caught attending mass in a nearby valley were tried here and if found guilty were hanged from a tree to SW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.