Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.13516, -9.73146
- SMR number
- GA110-052----
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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 limestone terrace overlooking the N coast of Inis Mór. A subcircular drystone hut (NE-SW 1.8m, NW-SE 1.55m) with a corbelled roof and a doorway at E. A curving wall abuts it and extends E for a short distance. Used when 'straddling' horses for fetching seaweed, as were Nos GA110-054---- and GA110-055---- (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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Kiln - kelp dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.