Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Marblehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marblehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromlech
- Coordinates
- 53.08122, -8.47110
- SMR number
- GA125-128----
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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 rolling pastureland, some 500m to the SW of another wedge-tomb (GA125-121----). This tomb is incorporated in a roadside fence. The remains comprise a short wedge-shaped gallery (L c. 3m; Wth estimated c. 1.5m at W narrowing to c. 1m at E), aligned E-W, represented by a closing stone at E, a single sidestone at N, two sidestones at S, and a backstone at E. The remains of a mound incorporating the tomb run under the fence. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 522; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 22-3)
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
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.