Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Ard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43345, -9.24367
- SMR number
- GA055-013----
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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 the summit of a ridged promontory jutting out into Lough Corrib. A rectangular cist-like structure exposed in the face of a quarry. Excavation in 1986 revealed it to have been aligned ENE-WSW but previously unroofed and both ends robbed (L >2.2m, Wth 0.44m, H 0.39m). (Casey 1988a)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.