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
- 53.16070, -8.59289
- SMR number
- GA115-015----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 120m to the ENE of another wedge tomb (GA115-014----). This tomb comprises a low mound (diam. c. 4m) along the perimeter of which are three outward-leaning slabs at N and a single set stone at S: these are aligned E-W. Four other stones protrude from the mound and a large slab lies to NW. The stones along the perimeter could be interpreted as the remains of the outer-walling of the wedge tomb.
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.