Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Sheeauns, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheeauns
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55529, -10.08429
- SMR number
- GA022-063001-
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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
On a low hillock overlooking the inner end of Cleggan Bay to W. The monument, partly incorporated in a field wall, consists of a polygonal chamber (L c. 1.6m, Wth c. 1. 1m) open to NE and covered by a single roofstone. The chamber area has been dug out and the closing stone at SW may not be an original feature. The tomb is contained in a mound (6.5m by 5.5m). The remains are insufficient to permit classification. See also GA022-006----.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.