Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht cuimhne
Summerville, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerville
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49725, -8.60377
- SMR number
- GA045-048----
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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
At a T-junction, near Summerville Lake. Claffey (1983, 163) refers to 'a beehive cairn' which was destroyed by quarrying in the 1940s. He described it as 'a mosscovered monument, about one metre high, with an inscription, unrecorded, on a flat stone on top.' According to OS Letters (O' Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 235), the inscription commemorated 'Loughlin Kelly' and his wife, and was dated 1646.
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.