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
- 53.13660, -9.75547
- SMR number
- GA110-046----
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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 limestone terrace c. 100m SE of a similar group of cairns (GA110-045----). A group of four cairns lying c. 25m apart and varying in construction. The best preserved is conical in shape (D 2m, H 1.55m) and is constructed of limestone blocks. The others consist of limestone uprights around and against which are piled smaller stones. Numerous very small piles of stone are visible between the cairns.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.