Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Truska, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Truska
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44535, -10.13749
- SMR number
- GA048-008002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within an extensive complex of middens (GA048-008001-). The remains consist of at least two circular, and one square, huts defined by a loose scatter of boulders: (a) close to NE part of Doonloughan Bay is a square hut (L/Wth 4.4m) enclosed by a rectangular annexe to N (L 6.4m, Wth 4.4m); (b) close to S end of False Bay there is at least one circular example (D c. 3m) containing a centrally placed hearth and doorway at E; (c) at S limits of midden complex is a hut which survives as an irregular spread of boulders (D c. 25m). Gibbons et al. (1988, 66) have since noted the existence of at least five huts in this area. (Waddell 1977, 63)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.