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
- 53.13095, -9.72988
- SMR number
- GA110-059----
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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
In a roadside field c. 100m E of a similar group of cairns (GA110-057----). A subcircular cairn of limestone blocks (2.6m by 2m, H 1.4m) of dome-shaped appearance. Some 30m to N are a number of loose piles of stone scattered on the ground; possibly the denuded remains of similar 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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Leacht cuimhneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.