Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- Cist Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.21117, -8.72284
- SMR number
- GA104-261----
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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
Some 18m to the S of a cashel (GA104-260----). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 248, no. 16) as a ‘hut circle (?)’ but marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as ‘Cist Grave’. The remains comprise a circular area (diam. 4.5m int.) defined by an earthen bank with traces of an internal revetment. There is a gap at N. Possibly a hut site.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 31 July 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.