Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Cooloo, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooloo
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47944, -8.64283
- SMR number
- GA045-016----
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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 an esker. This monument consists of three elongated mounds, of similar size (L c. 3.5m H c. 0.55), forming a triangle (Claffey 1983, 151). According to local tradition, they are the graves of 'chieftains' killed in a dispute over land (ibid., 105).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.