Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Aill An Phréacháin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aill An Phréacháin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24967, -9.22508
- SMR number
- GA093-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the shoreline of An Trá Mór close to the outflow of Furbogh Stream. A short stretch of habitation material exposed in a scarp face (L 0.83m, T 0.9m) and consisting of charcoal and burnt stone: probably the remains of a hearth. Overlain by sod layer (T 0.33m).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate date1 mi
- Quarry2 mi
- Structure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.