Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Caltragh (killower Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caltragh (killower Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.48168, -8.96234
- SMR number
- GA042-064002-
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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 summit of Knockmaa, a prominent hilltop to SW of Tuam. A very large well-preserved subcircular cairn (E-W 22.2m, N-S 20.5m, H c. 5m) with a trigonometrical station on its flat summit. This is the largest and most prominent of a group of four cairns on the hilltop (see GA042-064003-, GA042-064---- and GA042-064004-): the others stand c. 70m to WSW, c.130m to WNW and c. 230m to W respectively. There are also cairns on the summits of the adjoining hills to E and W (GA043-033001-, GA042-093----, GA042-150----). Killanin and Duignan 1967, 305; CUCAP ATF 26, 28)
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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - summer houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.