Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Kilkerrin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkerrin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55035, -8.57868
- SMR number
- GA031-044002-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Associated with a church (GA031-044----) and graveyard. Aerial reconnaissance in July 1969 (CUCAP AYQ 70) revealed the line of a roadway in the large pasture field to N of the graveyard. This appears as a slight linear hollow in the field surface, flanked in parts by slight banks. Though it commences at its S end as a single road, it bifurcates c. 50m N of the graveyard. The E branch runs due N, across a partially quarried hillock, terminating after c. 120m close to a modern farmhouse. The W branch follows a roughly NNW course, and can be traced for c. 150m to the edge of the pasture field. At this point, an old earthen boundary, shown on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931), may mirror its course for a further 75m. Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.