Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Cave (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cave (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carn
- Coordinates
- 53.48053, -8.99458
- SMR number
- GA042-093----
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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 a low hill, 2km W of Knockmaa (see GA042-064002-). What survives today is a poorly preserved irregular cairn (D c. 15m, H c. 2.5m) much depleted by quarrying in the late 19th C. It was during quarrying in 1902, that a rectangular cist (E-W; L 2.2m, Wth 1.1m, H 1.1m) was discovered on S side of the cairn. It was drystone-built, had a floor slab, and a large capstone (L >2m). It contained an extended skeleton with the head to W. An Irish Vase stood at E end and a portion of another lay near the head. (Costello 1903, 9; 1905, 34-8; Waddell 1975, 14; 1990, 92)
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.