Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
An Baile Ard,ballyweeaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Ard,ballyweeaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53157, -9.41072
- SMR number
- GA026-022----
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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 an area of bogland and outcropping rock on the summit of Ben Levy, overlooking a small lake to the NW. This subcircular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H c. 4m), constructed of loose stone, is fairly well preserved. Six large boulders evident near its base in the E sector appear to have been thrown there. On the summit some of the cairn material has been used to construct a small enclosure (diam. c. 1m; H c. 1m).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 February 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.