Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Kilcahill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcahill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leacht Chill Chathail
- Coordinates
- 53.41079, -8.90939
- SMR number
- GA057-111----
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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
At a road junction on W side of the Galway-Tuam road, c. 210m NE of a church (GA057-085001-). Indicated on OS Fair Plan as a small rectangular roadside recess and named 'Monument' and 'Cahill na can Dherg' in Gothic script. On 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map, it is shown as a circular dot and labelled simply as 'Monument' in Roman script. By the time of 3rd ed. (1933), it has been renamed 'Leacht Chill Chathail' but no location is indicated. According to local information, it was 'an eight-sided flagstone' c. 3m in diameter. It was removed during road-widening work. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.