Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
Tyrone, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tyrone
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20268, -8.91315
- SMR number
- GA103-193----
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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 a slight rise in farmland. This roughly circular flat-topped cairn (base diam. c. 9m; top 5m; H c. 1.25m) is built of grassed-over stones. According to the landowner, it is ‘modern’ but it covers four stone slabs. McCaffrey (1952, 19, no. 32a) noted that in a depression (L c. 3m; Wth 1.8m; D 0.8m) in its centre, a stone (L 1.2m; H 0.7m) set on edge was indicative of the ‘remains of a plundered cist or chamber’.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.