Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Burroge (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burroge (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16060, -8.59479
- SMR number
- GA115-014----
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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 level pastureland, immediately to to the S of a small stream. This megalithic tomb consists of a chamber (L 2.5m; Wth 1.3m) aligned NW-SE. It is formed by a backstone at E, two sidestones at S, a single sidestone at N, and a high septal-stone at W. The chamber is filled with field stones. The remains of another wedge tomb (GA115-015----) stand c. 120m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.