Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Menlough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Menlough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31129, -9.05370
- SMR number
- GA082-069----
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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 W slope in open limestone terrain c. 120m SW of an enclosure (GA082-057----). A small U-shaped, rectangular drystone structure (L 1.20m, Wth 0.9m) opening to S. A field wall runs along its N side.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.