Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Cloonmweelaun (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmweelaun (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42308, -8.59174
- SMR number
- GA059-018----
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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
In flat pasture. The tomb comprises the remains of a ruined gallery (L 5.5, Wth c 2m), aligned NW-SE. Its overall length would indicate that it had at least two chambers. Four sidestones are present on N and two on S side of the gallery, and a backstone stands at its NW end. Finally, a single corbel or displaced roofstone protrudes from the ground at S side of the gallery. The structure is incorporated at SE end of a long low mound (L 27.5m, Wth 12m at SE, narrowing to c. 3m at NW). (Ó Nualláin 1989, 118)
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.