Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterfrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.55190, -9.95316
- SMR number
- GA023-016----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a N-facing slope on outcropping craggy rock, immediately to the S of a bend in the N59 Clifden-Westport road. Indicated and named ‘Carn’ on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; on the 1898 resurvey the words ‘Site of’ are appended. On inspection in May 1982 the cairn was overgrown with vegetation. Traces of a possible arc of it (L 4m; Wth 2m; H 0.5m) were visible on the W side but it was unclear whether this was natural or not. The cairn had been robbed considerably, probably when the house to its E was built. It was probably also disturbed when the road was laid down. On a re-inspection in November 1983 no visible surface traces of it were visible. Another cairn (GA023-054----) lies c. 65m to the SW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.