Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht cuimhne
Menlough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Menlough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pillar
- Coordinates
- 53.30315, -9.06520
- SMR number
- GA082-065----
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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
At the junction of three roads 0.5km ENE of Menlough village. A square mortared pier (L/Wth 1.5m, H 2.5m) on a splayed base. It has a pyramidal top and a plaque on W face commemorating 'William Connell and his wife Catherine Coyne and their son Edmund O'Connell and his wife Sarah Eher', dated 1693. (Athy 1914, 160)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pillar stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.