Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Racepark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Racepark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47428, -9.08759
- SMR number
- GA042-214----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In pastureland. According to local information, a hachured feature shown on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map was a sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.