Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Tisaxon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tisaxon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.34409, -8.70509
- SMR number
- GA071-084----
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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 S-facing slope in undulating grassland. A circular platform (D 8.8m, H 0.75m), in the corner of a field, composed mainly of small grassed-over stones. The top is dished in profile. Possibly a house or, less likely, a barrow. A number of low grassed-over earth and stone banks are also visible c. 30m to S.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.