Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Cnoc Raithní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cnoc Raithní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35019, -9.25610
- SMR number
- GA067-029001-
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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 the SSE sector of a ring-cairn (GA067-029----). This possible cist grave (L 0.6m; Wth 0.5m) is defined by slabs set on edge along its NW and SW sides. An adjacent flat slab may be a displaced capstone (pers. comm. P. Gosling 2013).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut site1 mi
- Cairn - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.