Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
Annagh Hill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh Hill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghta Soggarth
- Coordinates
- 53.40780, -8.82028
- SMR number
- GA057-013----
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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 top of a low hill, 603 SE of the Galway-Mount Bellew road. What survives is a low oval mound of earth and stone (N-S 6.3m, E-W 5.3m, H 0.85m). On its summit lies on inscribed slab, dated 1665, commemorating William Lynch and his son Thomas. There is a local tradition that this is the burial place of a priest. According to one version, he was killed near a large natural boulder, known locally as a mass rock, which lies 90m to NNE.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 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.