Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Rafarn (kilmeen Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rafarn (kilmeen Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18864, -8.48909
- SMR number
- GA106-146----
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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
Marked as a sand pit on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused) on the OS 25-inch plan. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Not visited.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.