Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Carrownakib, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownakib
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45215, -9.18054
- SMR number
- GA055-034----
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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 a low knoll amidst gently rolling pasture, 1.2km from E shores of Lough Corrib. The monument is very ruined. It consists of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned roughly E-W, represented by two entrance jambs at E, two sidestones on N and a backstone at W. A single courtstone flanks N jamb, and a stone in a similar position adjoining the opposite jamb may also be a courtstone. The overall length of the gallery would indicate that it had at least two chambers. The structure is incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 12.5m, Wth 10m). There is an unclassified megalithic tomb (GA055-070----) c. 130m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-069----) c. 160m to NNW. (Aldridge 1965, 15; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12; Ó Nualláin 1989, 118)
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
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.