Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Carrownakib, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownakib
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45324, -9.18188
- SMR number
- GA055-069----
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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 S-facing slope of a low hill in gently rolling pasture. It comprises a gallery (L c. 2.2m, Wth 1.75m), aligned E-W, represented by two stones on N side, one on S and a tall backstone (H 1.8m) at W. There is an upright stone at E which appears to have been displaced from the tomb. A large displaced stone protrudes from the field stones which fill the chamber. The remains are incorporated into a field wall beside an outhouse. A court tomb (GA055-034----) stands c. 130m to SE. (Aldridge 1965, 15)
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
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 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.