Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Magheranearla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheranearla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17858, -8.18913
- SMR number
- GA108-179----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland. On inspection in 1984 this proved to be a disused quarry defined by a large circular hollow. 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: 13 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.