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Cairn - unclassified

Drumacoo, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Drumacoo, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Drumacoo
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.19893, -8.90196
SMR number
GA103-118011-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a gentle SE-facing slope, c. 165m to the ESE of the church (GA103-118001-) at the monastic complex at Drumacoo. This poorly preserved subcircular cairn (13.5m NW-SE; 12.5m N-S; H < 2m) is defined by grassed-over stones. Field-clearance rubble has been dumped on its S half. A curving drystone wall surrounds the monument from SW to W. A cross-base and fragments of its shaft (see GA103-118008-), and a possible leacht (GA103-118013-) are visible at NW.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 15 December 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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