Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ceathrú An Teampaill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Teampaill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08456, -9.59934
- SMR number
- GA119-050----
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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 a N-facing slope overlooking a clochan (GA119-051----) to NE. Described by Mac Domhnaill in 1933 as 'Christian graves' (Topgr. Files, NMI). It consists of several large upright limestone slabs with no apparent alignment, at the N end of an irregularly shaped field.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.