Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cahernaman
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahernaman
- Coordinates
- 53.06104, -9.51918
- SMR number
- GA120-018----
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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 brow of a rise 150m to S of Dún Formna (GA120-017001-). What survives is a low circular cairn of stones (N-S 15m, E-W 17m, H c. 1.5m), the surface of which is pitted with hollows. It is surrounded by a field wall from SW to NE and by loose piles of small stones elsewhere. Though known locally as Cathair na mBan, its present morphology and siting suggests that it is a heavily robbed hilltop cairn rather than an enclosure. (Anon. 1887, 45; Westropp 1895, 272; Robinson 1980)
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
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.