Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Keernaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keernaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43835, -9.06455
- SMR number
- GA056-078002-
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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
Associated with a cashel (GA056-078----). The outlines of three poorly preserved houses/huts are visible as follows: (a: GA056-078001-) immediately inside the collapsed cashel wall at SSW is a subrectangular area (N-S; L c. 5m) defined by a ruinous stone wall, the outer face of which is clearly visible; (b: GA056-078002-) on the line of the collapsed cashel wall at NNE is a roughly circular hut (D 1.35m) defined by a collapsed stone wall; (c: GA056-078003-) immediately S of the latter is a rectangular area (NW-SE; L 2.9m, Wth 1.7m), similarly defined, which also appears to be built into the cashel wall.
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: 15 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.