Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12552, -9.76723
- SMR number
- GA110-039006-
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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
This structure, identified as Structure 5, was revealed during the course of research excavations in the W half of the inner enclosure at Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----). Only the foundation course (L 3m; H 0.48m) of its NW sector survived and the remains were too incomplete to suggest a ground plan. The surviving wall was of mixed construction with the central part being double-faced (Wth 0.82m) and both ends consisting of single orthostats. No occupation horizon could be unequivocally associated with it. Stratigraphically the structure was later than structure 8b (GA110-039005-) - its S wall had partly truncated the N wall of the latter - and it pre-dated the secondary refurbishment of the wall of the inner enclosure. Structure 2 (GA110-039007-) post-dated it (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 306-7; 310; vol. 2, 246).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
References
Cotter, C. 2012 The western stone forts project. Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.