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Cairn - unclassified

Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Inis Oírr, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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