Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - wayside cairn
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
- 53.13710, -9.75620
- SMR number
- GA110-045----
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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
On a flat limestone terrace, immediately E of a byroad, overlooking Port Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór. A group of five small, roughly circular stone cairns (D 1.5-1.9m, H 0.85m average). Each consists of a limestone upright around which a number of stones have been piled. A similar group of cairns (GA110-046----) lies c. 100m to SE.
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
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.