Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Roo (Dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roo (Dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.21288, -8.72794
- SMR number
- GA104-259----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the E end of a short, steep-sided ridge in undulating pastureland. The ground falls particularly steeply from W to N. This small subrectangular building is defined by grassed-over stone walls. It 4.5m E-W and 2.9m N-S. The interior is 0.9m lower than the surrounding ground level. A gap at E is 2m wide. A house site (GA104-292----) lies c. 12m to the N.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.