Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Gortarica, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortarica
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47803, -9.05564
- SMR number
- GA042-141----
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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 ridge running N-S. A subcircular cairn (N-S 10.2m, E-W 9.6m, H 1.7m), in fair condition, composed of small stones and known locally as a 'burial ground'. Traces of a low bank are visible on the flat summit from N to ENE.-Field-clearance rubble has been deposited on the summit.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.