Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Knockauncoura (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockauncoura (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.19608, -8.61580
- SMR number
- GA105-142----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A hachured feature marked on the 1929 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1982 to be to be a disused sand pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.