Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garvanagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garvanagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.55289, -8.12764
- SMR number
- DG103-075----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, broken by seams of karst outcropping. Immediately to N, the ground shelves down into an E–W stream valley, overlooked on the N side by a high ridge. There are ruined vernacular farm buildings in the adjoining field to W. This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a broadly oval area (c. 25m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by a low-profile bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.3m). It is not clear whether the enclosing bank is earthen or has a stony core. It can be traced at WSW-NE as a very low, grass-covered rise. It is incorporated at NE-SE into a later field wall, now reduced to a jumble of stones. At SSE-SSW the outline of the enclosure is barely discernible, and here, along or just inside the original line of the enclosing bank, there is an area (c. 3.5-4m E-W) of disturbance where a seam of limestone bedrock has been quarried out. The interior of the enclosure is level and not noticeably raised above exterior ground level.
Attached image:
DG103-075----_01.JPG yellow arrows indicated curve of enclosing bank/wall at NW-E, viewed from E.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.