Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Carnaun (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnaun (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32839, -8.78626
- SMR number
- GA084-040006-
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 level ground at W edge of a field system (GA084-040002-). A low subcircular grassed-over cairn (23m N-S; 20m E-W; H c. 1m) irregular in outline and quarried out at NW. Close by, to E, is a small D-shaped grassed-over cairn (3m E-W; 1m N-S; H 0.4m); its significance and relationship, if any, to the larger cairn is unclear. A natural spring well lies immediately to W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeology Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.