Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Eyrephort, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eyrephort
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51311, -10.12651
- SMR number
- GA022-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Close to shore on S side of Kingstown Bay. Petrie (1972, 253) refers to a 'town of Cahers and circular stone houses' at a place called 'Ballyconry (Baile Chonrigh, i.e. the town of Curigh)'. He then continues: 'They consist of circular foundations of various size, varying from 6 to 50 feet [2-17m] in diameter. The smaller ones appear to have been roofed with stone but there are none of them perfect'. All that is visible today is a large area (E-W 400m, N-S 200m) full of field clearance cairns with lazy-beds running between them, possibly the remains of the site referred to by Petrie. A wedge-tomb lies immediately W (GA022-036----). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 91-2)
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.