Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Booley hut
Eadargúil, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eadargúil
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55344, -9.91885
- SMR number
- GA049-033----
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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 the base of Binn Guaire/Diamond Hill, to the E of Letterfrack. Recorded by M. Gibbons, this roughly rectangular hut (3.6m NE-SW; 1.5-2.6m NW-SE) opens to the NE and is defined by a stone wall (H 1.1-1.5m) that incorporates two large boulders in its make-up along the SE side. A short section of walling (L 2.4m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.6m), also incorporating a large boulder, abuts it at NW. The location of the hut on the drier side of the mountain suggests that it is most likely a booley hut. A second possible hut may survive c. 100m to the E but, due to the dense growth of rhododendron, this is not certain. The hut may have been used during the War of Independence (information from M. Madden).
The following image has been uploaded, courtesy of M. Gibbons, GA049-033----.pdf View from NE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information provided by M. Gibbons
Date of upload: 8 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.