Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynastaig (kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 53.09705, -8.86670
- SMR number
- GA122-019----
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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 flat pastureland, c. 1.2km to the NW of Coole Lough. The megalithic tomb consists of a wedge-shaped chamber (L > 4.5m; Wth 2m at W narrowing to 1.2m at E), aligned NE-SW, which is incorporated in an oval mound. The chamber sides, each of one great slab, decrease in height from W to E and support a massive roofstone. Both ends of the tomb are blocked by modern drystone walls. Two closely set outer-wall stones are exposed beside the S sidestone. Some 2m to the SW of the chamber are two stones, which may be the remains of a flat façade. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 19-20)
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.