Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Lisloughlin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisloughlin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40692, -8.50617
- SMR number
- GA060-161----
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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 a prominent hilltop. Known locally as 'The Three Fingers', it consists of an 19th-C ornamental gateway (Wth 1.3m) with a shouldered arch set into a field wall. Built of well-dressed limestone and mortared rubble, it is surmounted by three narrow pillars of unequal height.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.