Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Carn, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20136, -8.53475
- SMR number
- GA105-219----
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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
Noted during aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:60), this subcircular house (9.5m E-W; 8.5m N-S), located in the SE section of a field (see GA105-209----), is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m). The interior slopes to the S and two nettle-filled hollows are visible within it.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.