Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Curragh More (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh More (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sheeaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sheeaun
- Coordinates
- 53.56115, -8.51302
- SMR number
- GA032-020----
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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 a slight rise in pastureland. The minor name 'Sheeaun' is printed on the OS 6-inch maps, though not in antiquarian typeface. It is derived from the Irish ‘Sidheán’ meaning a fairy hill (Joyce 1996, 106) and in this case it appears to be the name given to a hillock that was subsequently quarried into for gravel, particularly at NE. Named ‘Gravel Pit’ on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). The quarrying is probably of 19th/20th century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 October 2014
References
Joyce, P.W. 1923 (1996 ed.) Irish local names explained. Dublin. Roberts Books.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.