Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Cloghroak, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghroak
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.18258, -8.75898
- SMR number
- GA104-110----
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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
On a hillock. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 16, no. 140) as a ‘bowl-barrow’ but his description is that
of a cairn of stones (diam. 12.2m; H 2.4m), bounded from S to W by a field wall. McCaffrey (ibid.) referred to numerous dumps of field stones in the locality but felt that this particular cairn was not of recent origin due to the fact that ‘the stones of the lower part are grass- and moss-grown’. He also felt that its hilltop setting also argued that it could be prehistoric in date but noted that only excavation would determine that. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 November 2019
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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.