Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Carrigeen East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21814, -8.76467
- SMR number
- GA104-092002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SE corner of a possible enclosure (GA104-092006-). This megalithic structure consists of two orthostatic limestone slabs (stone A: H 1.25m; L 2.04m; T 0.42m; stone B: H 1.08m; L 2.12m; T 0.5m) which may form the side-stones of a small rectangular chamber (L 1.85m; Wth 1m) aligned roughly E-W. A third slab (H 0.95m; L 0.95m; T 0.45m) forms the E end of the chamber which is open to the W. McCaffrey (1952, 10, 222, plate 3) recorded that the chamber was reputed to be the site of a 'priest's burial'. Possibly a wedge tomb?
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 January 2020
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.