Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Baile Na Habhann Theas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Na Habhann Theas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22986, -9.51234
- SMR number
- GA091-025----
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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
In S part of Loch an Chraoibhín. The discovery of a number of archaeological objects on a small overgrown island, including fragments of the top and bottom of a disc quern, a wooden peg, an iron object and a piece of animal bone, suggest that it was once inhabited (Topgr. Files, NMI). Not visited.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.