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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Cahernaglass, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Cahernaglass, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cahernaglass
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Grave
Coordinates
53.40549, -8.73704
SMR number
GA058-043----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a broad valley near W end of an isolated terrace of cragland, 1.6km S of Knockroe Hill. The monument, extant in 1960, has since been destroyed and no visible surface trace survives. It consisted of a long narrow gallery (L 8.2m, Wth 1.9m at W, narrowing to 1m at E), aligned roughly E-W. Five displaced slabs lay along it; these may have been fragments of the roof. The N side was represented by five orthostats and S side by seven; a backstone was in position at E end. Two outer wall-stones were exposed on N side and two on S side. The tomb was incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 13, Wth < 8m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12-13; 6 Nualláin 1989, 137)

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

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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