Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
Maíros, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maíros
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34887, -9.87824
- SMR number
- GA063-016002-
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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
To NW of a byroad in the vicinity of a holy well (GA063-016001-) and a stream. A group of some 12 small cairns of loose stone are visible to W and NW of the holy well along with four D-shaped shelters, also of stone. These may have been penitential stations associated with devotions at the well. (Robinson 1985, 43).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.