Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Lurgan Or Shindilla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan Or Shindilla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fairy House
- Coordinates
- 53.45330, -9.50377
- SMR number
- GA053-006----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map as a large sand pit. Not shown on the 1898 resurvey of the map but the name 'Fairy House', in Gothic script, had been added. However, this name was appended to a building c. 190m to the SE - see GA053-004---- on the 1st edition map, so its inclusion on the 1898 resurvey may relate to a mapping error. The site was not visited but the cartographic evidence suggests it was a quarry. 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: 9 July 2014
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.