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Hilltop enclosure

Clooncah (Ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hilltop enclosure, Clooncah, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clooncah (Ballymoe By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.64540, -8.39137
SMR number
GA007-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a hill summit in pastureland. A large poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NW-SE 85m, NE-SW 65m) defined by a fosse, divided in two by a modern field bank running NNE-SSW. A site inspection in 1967 (Topgr. Files, OPW) recorded that it was 'bounded by a collapsed stone wall (overgrown and giving superficial appearance of a bank). Big wide deep fosse inside'. Subsequently levelled, it is now defined by a broad shallow fosse (Wth 5m). Outside the fosse, a band of nettles and thistles is visible from WNW to N, possibly indicating the line of the outer bank/wall. Traces of a possible causeway across the fosse are visible at N. The interior is flat but is slightly lower than the exterior. A battlefield (GA007-042----) lies immediately to E.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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