Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Kilroghter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilroghter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31628, -9.04986
- SMR number
- GA082-101----
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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 low hillock sloping gently to the N with panoramic views over Lough Corrib, in rough rocky pastureland. When initially inspected in April 2002, this small partially tumbled rectangular drystone cairn (L 1.6m ESE-WNW; Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) was obscured by the growth of briars. It was known locally as a Fenian grave and it may be a memorial cairn of 18th-century date. On re-inspection in January 2023, the cairn was still extant but collapsed material was evident around all sides of it and the area itself was more densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 1 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.