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House - indeterminate date

Bunnaconeen, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Bunnaconeen, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Bunnaconeen
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.48382, -9.08033
SMR number
GA042-044----

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David 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

On a SE-facing slope in grassland. A series of low banks and scarps are referred to locally as a 'caher'. These comprise: (a) the grassed-over stone foundations of a rectangular house (NW-SE; L 8.5m, Wth 3m); (b) a slightly larger rectangular platform adjoining it at SW, and (c) a short distance to NE, a large subrectangular platform (N-S 27.4m, E-W 25.2m), possibly the 'caher' referred to above. A number of banks radiate from these features which may represent a house and associated plots. Alternatively, the large platform may perhaps be a poorly preserved ringfort. An earthwork (GA042-043----) lies c. 40m to NW.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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