Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterfrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54766, -9.95010
- SMR number
- GA023-020----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At W foot of Diamond Hill and within Connemara National Park. This tomb is very ruined and lacks a court. The remains consist of a gallery (L c. 5.5m) aligned N-S, divided into two chambers by a pair of transversely set jambs. There has been some interference with the structure at S end of the monument, and the stones here seem to represent the last vestiges of an old field wall. (Gibbons and Higgins 1988d, 65)
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.