Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Cahercon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11086, -8.91175
- SMR number
- GA113-055002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Centrally located within a cashel (GA113-055----). A small raised rectangular stone-built
structure (L 3.5m; Wth 3m; H 0.8m) may be the remains of a house site. The NE and NW corners are marked by large undressed boulders while those at SW and SE consist of thinner flagstones.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.