Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Kildrum, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildrum
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48290, -9.00357
- SMR number
- GA042-150----
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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 a flat-topped hill (OD 330.5ft), 2.5km W of Knockmaa (see GA042-064002-). Named 'Poulnahallia or Kildrum' on OS Fair Plan, it is a grassed-over flat-topped subcircular cairn (E-W 12.2m, N-S 11.7m, H c. 4m) in fair condition. A slight hollow on the summit appears to be the result of modern interference. A human skull and a whetstone were found during 'excavations' in 1902 (Costello 1905, 37; Waddell 1975, 18; 1990, 94).
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.