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
- 53.13545, -9.72401
- SMR number
- GA110-055----
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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
Circa 100m E of GA110-054----. A rectangular drystone structure (L 3.7m, Wth 2.6m) with entrance at E. Corbelling survives in NW corner. Used when 'straddling' horses for fetching seaweed (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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.