Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Luimnagh West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Luimnagh West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41468, -9.06463
- SMR number
- GA056-111----
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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 N shore of Lough Corrib. This artificial causeway (L 70-75m; Wth 3m; H 0.3m) is constructed of a mix of angular limestone boulders, those along the well-defined edges are larger. It runs in a SW direction out into the shallow rock-strewn lakeshore. On inspection, it was fully exposed but in winter it is submerged. Its date and function are unclear. According to local information, this area was exploited for limestone for fertilizer in the 19th century. It is also held that stones drawn from here were used to build St Mary's Cathedral in Tuam. Possibly of 18th/19th-century date.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.