Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
An Cnoc Buí, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cnoc Buí
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34991, -9.84555
- SMR number
- GA063-010----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 bogland on NE shore of Loch Buaile. It consists of a bed of flat granite stones (Wth 1-1.5m, H 1m) traceable intermittently for c. 70m from the lake shore, curving towards NE. A lake dwelling (GA063-009----) lies c. 180m to SW. (Robinson 1985, 21)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.