Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Fakeeragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fakeeragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49358, -10.04045
- SMR number
- GA035-040----
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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
On a ridge c. 70m NW of Loch an Ime. Rectangular cist, aligned E-W (L c. 1.65m, Wth c. 0.7m, H 0.28m). The side-walls are composed of thin slabs but E endstone and capstone are missing. Traces of a low irregular cairn (4m by 3.5m) are visible around it abutting against a rock outcrop immediately to N. (Gibbons 1988)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.