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
- 54.55143, -8.10100
- SMR number
- DG104-013----
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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
Located on a broad ridge top, in rough pasture broken by E–W seams of limestone outcropping. Immediately to S, the ground dips gently into a narrow, shallow E-W valley of wet ground. Oval enclosure (diam. c. 30.5m N–S; c. 26m E–W) defined by remnants of a stone bank /wall. The stone bank appears as a very low-profile, grass- and moss-covered rise (Wth 1.4-c. 2m; H 0.3-0.4m) from which occasional stones protrude. It is most clearly traced at N–NE and at SE-SW; elsewhere, it is barely discernible as a slight rise or cropmark of moss or low juniper scrub, and at SW-NW it is almost entirely levelled. The interior has a rough, hummock-covered suface, with seams of limestone breaking the surface in the S half. A shallow E–W central dip marks a tractor route through the interior, bracketted at E by a gap (Wth 4m), possibly an original entrance, in the enclosing wall, and at W by a levelled section of wall.
Attached images:
DG104.013----_01.JPG enclosure viewed from E
DG104.013----_02.JPG enclosing stone bank/wall
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 May 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.