Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Garraunbaun (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraunbaun (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55393, -10.01648
- SMR number
- GA022-041----
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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
At the base of a steep N-facing hillslope to W of Ballynakill Harbour. The monument, very ruined, consists of a chamber (L 3m, Wth 1.1m), aligned NW-SE, with a very tall backstone at NW and transversely set jamb at SE. The remains are those of the rear chamber of a court-tomb. A pitched-out stone, 2m to SE of the chamber, may be a displaced entrance jamb. A large slab lies to N, beside the monument.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.