Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Cartron (killian By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (killian By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51917, -8.34650
- SMR number
- GA033-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland. Four small hachured features marked on the 1926 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pits defined by hollows. Three are close together and the fourth lies c. 165m to the S. Probably of 19th/20th-century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.