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Milestone

Caherpeak East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Milestone, Caherpeak East, 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
Caherpeak East
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
M.S.
Coordinates
53.18774, -8.84798
SMR number
GA103-218----

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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

In a grassy verge on the E side of the R458, just S of a junction with the L85602. Named ‘M.S.’ on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this milestone (H 0.57m; Wth 0.3m at front, 0.45 at rear; D 0.36m) consists of a well-dressed trapezoidal-shaped limestone pillar with a very slight chamfer to the front margins. The OS bird’s foot benchmark is deeply inscribed on the top of it. The inscription on the front face reads: ‘10 From Galway’ but the numeral 0 has been partly removed due to spalling (O’Sullivan 2021, No. 8). The milestone is one of nine in the study area, see also GA122-098----, GA122-147----, GA122-148----, GA113-189----, GA113-217----, GA113-218----, GA103-217---- and GA103-219----). (McManus 2022, 23-4, No. 8)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 15 March 2023

McManus, G. 2022 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road' from Gort to Galway. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.

O'Sullivan, J. 2021 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road'. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.

Nearby in the register

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

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