Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Knockbrack (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Labbadermot
- Latest-edition OS map
- Labbadermot
- Coordinates
- 53.55885, -10.12908
- SMR number
- GA022-048----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Close to the seashore on E side of Sellerna Bay. The monument consists of a small narrow chamber (L c. 2.3m, Wth c. 0.8m) aligned E-W, and covered by a roofstone supported at W by a large slab. The N and S sides are each formed of three stones. The sides extend beyond the single orthostat which closes E end. The monument is incorporated in a fence. The remains are insufficient to allow classification. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 5)
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
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.