Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Caherfurvaus, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfurvaus
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23846, -8.77287
- SMR number
- GA096-173----
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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
In an area of level pastureland and outcropping rock. The tomb consists of a chamber (L 2m; Wth 1.4m), aligned NE-SW, formed of two sidestones which decrease in height from W to E. The interior of the chamber is filled with field stones which extend some 3m beyond it to the E and W. The remains are probably those of a wedge-tomb.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.