Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Looscaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Looscaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03677, -8.34991
- SMR number
- GA132-023----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the N-facing slope of a hillock in undulating grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1948 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a rectangular hollow filled with trees: most likely a disused sand or gravel quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 15 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.