Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Kilskeagh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilskeagh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36808, -8.77770
- SMR number
- GA071-046001-
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
On a NE-facing slope, c. 10m NE of a hilltop enclosure (GA071-046----). A well-built rectangular drystone two-roomed house (NE-SW; L 11.3m, Wth 5m), best preserved along SE and SW sides (H 1.8m); elsewhere the walls have collapsed. Adjoining it to SE is a hollow area (L c. 11m, Wth c. 5m) defined by collapsed walls along E and S sides. The interior is choked with collapse.
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.