Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Mullagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caislean-na-Cirche
- Coordinates
- 53.53964, -8.90560
- SMR number
- GA029-131----
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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 pastureland on an E-W running esker ridge. A hachured area, named 'Caislean-na-Cirche' on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map, proved on inspection in 1984 to be a quarried area at the E end of the esker.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.