Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Loughauna, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughauna
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50904, -9.97583
- SMR number
- GA023-022----
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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
In a rocky defile to SE of Loch Ána. The monument is very ruined and is difficult to interpret. The remains of a possible chamber (L 2.5m, Wth c. 1.2m), opening to NE, can be distinguished among the rocks and boulders that litter the immediate area. It is possibly the remnants of a megalithic tomb.
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
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field system1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.