Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letterfrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54217, -9.93497
- SMR number
- GA023-053----
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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 within the Connemara National Park on the N bank of a small tributary stream that flows into the Owengarve River to the SW. The area is one of cutaway bogland. This possible hut site (c. 4.1m N-S; c. 2.4m E-W), subrectangular in plan, is defined by a bank best preserved on the S side (Wth 0.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m). The interior is raised above the surrounding ground level. This monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 14 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 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.