Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Milestone
Kiltartan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltartan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- M.S.
- Coordinates
- 53.10275, -8.82079
- SMR number
- GA122-148----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In an earthen embankment on the NE side of a local roadway, c. 200m to the NW of the entrance to Kiltartan church (GA122-104----). This milestone, named ‘M.S.’ on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map, consists of a well-dressed flat-topped trapezoidal-shaped limestone pillar (H 0.63m; Wth 0.29m at front, 0.46m at rear; D 0.36m) with a narrow chamfer to the outer angles. It bears the following inscription of the front face: ‘15 From Galway’. The upper part of the numerals is damaged by heavy spalling (O’Sullivan 2021, No. 3). The milestone is one of nine in the study area, see also GA122-098----, GA122-147----, GA113-189----, GA113-217----, GA113-218----, GA103-217----, GA103-218---- and GA103-219----). (McManus 2022, 13-14, No. 3)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 23 March 2023
McManus, G. 2022 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road' from Gort to Galway. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.
O'Sullivan, J. 2021 Nine 18th-century milestones on the 'Old Galway Road'. Unpublished specialist report, Ardrahan Heritage Group.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.