Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05363, -9.51458
- SMR number
- GA120-029----
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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
On E side of Inis Oírr c. 250m from seashore. Known locally as Buaile Glas and described by Robinson (1980) as an 'old burial place with traces of surrounding wall'. It consists of a low ovate cairn of stone running NE-SW (L >12m, Wth 6.5m, H 1m) which fades out at NE end (possibly due to robbing). Traces of a slab revetment are visible at SW end and along W side. Numerous small set slabs, some forming rectangular settings, are visible on the summit.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Seaweed standunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.