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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48223, -8.96557
- SMR number
- GA042-064004-
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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, c. 230m W of the largest cairn (GA042-064002-). A very low but well-defined circular platform of loose limestone boulders (D 14.8m) up to c. 1m in height. Its surface is flat but there are faint traces of a stony bank around the perimeter. (CUCAP ATF 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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.