Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Lehinch (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lehinch (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55193, -8.54887
- SMR number
- GA031-053----
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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
On the N-facing slope of a hill in poorly drained pastueland. An unenclosed area of scrub marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused and overgrown quarry pit.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 9 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.