Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glinsk (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glinsk (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64977, -8.43426
- SMR number
- GA007-067----
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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 flat pastureland, 300m SSW of Glinsk Castle (GA007-062001-). Aerial reconnaissance in January 1985 (ASGAP 233:46) revealed a circular univallate enclosure (D c. 25-35m) enclosed by a denuded bank, with possible traces of an external fosse at S and W. Not visited.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.