Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13013, -9.76443
- SMR number
- GA110-037----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a narrow limestone terrace c. 340m WSW of Teampall na Naomh (GA110-073001-). Known locally as An Cnocán Glás (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a horseshoe-shaped grassed-over stony mound (WSW-ENE 21m, NNW-SSE 19.2m, H 1.7m) opening towards ENE. The mound appears to be composed of small angular pieces of limestone. There is a small upright stone at WSW end of the central hollow. Despite the absence of a visible water source, the morphology of the monument suggests that it may be a fulacht fiadh. (Robinson 1980)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.