Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Croaghill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croaghill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68479, -8.59900
- SMR number
- GA001-013----
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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 summit of a ridge in undulating grassland. The poorly preserved remains of an enclosure (N-S c. 51m) which is cut from N to S by the Ballymoe-Ballinlough road. To W of the road, the arc of a bank survives from SW to NW. No visible surface trace survives to E. Known locally as a 'fairy fort'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.