Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - early medieval
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
- 53.12538, -9.76733
- SMR number
- GA110-039024-
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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 is one of four possible house sites (see also GA110-039021-, GA110-039022- and GA110-039023-) that were uncovered during the course of excavations in the SW part of Cutting 1, in the inner enclosure of Dún Aonghasa (GA110-039----). All that survived of this example, identified as Structure 10, was a short arc of walling (C 1.6m) in the NNW sector that was made up of three contiguous blocks of stone. The blocks were stratified over the fill within Structure 1 (GA110-039021-). There was no associated stratigraphy. If the remains were those of a house, the projected ground plan would have enclosed the hearth (GA110-039025-) in the E sector (Cotter 2012, vol. 1, 350, 353, 355, 357, 360).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 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
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.