Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06315, -9.53067
- SMR number
- GA120-010----
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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
In a small pasture field overlooking the beach to N. An oval-shaped grassed-over mound of earth and stone (N-S 12.5m, E-W 9.5m) in fair condition. A slight depression in the centre contains a number of enigmatic stone settings. Traces of a stone revetment exist at NE.
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.