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House - indeterminate date

Carheens, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Carheens, 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
Carheens
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.47311, -8.96205
SMR number
GA042-076004-

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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

Associated with a large enclosure (GA042-076001-). A total of five houses were identified in and around the enclosure as follows: (a) close to the centre, a rectangular area (N-S; L 7.5m, Wth 3.5m) defined by a collapsed wall; (b) immediately to SE, a rectangular depression (N-S; L 5.9m, Wth 1.8m) defined by the foundations of a wall; (c) on the line of the enclosure wall at S, a rectangular area (NE-SW; L c. 8.6m, Wth 4.3m) defined by grassed-over rubble; (d) to NE of the enclosure, a partially sunken house, subcircular in plan (N-S; L 7.3, Wth 6.4m), defined by a bank revetted internally with a gap (Wth 1m) at E; (e) to SE of it, a poorly preserved rectangular house (N-S; L 5m, Wth 1.8m) defined by a low grassed-over stone wall.

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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