Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Cloonkeen Eighter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen Eighter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51694, -8.61689
- SMR number
- GA031-020----
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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
On the S slope of a low hill in undulating pastureland. A hachured area marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a depression resulting from quarrying operations.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Moated site1 mi
- House - 18th/19th century1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.