Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmacrickard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacrickard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63805, -8.49240
- SMR number
- GA007-083----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a ridge in grassland overlooking bogland to S, W and N. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 65m). All that survives is a D-shaped field (N-S 54m) delimited by a modern field bank. Directly inside the field bank is a shallow fosse (Wth 3m) curving from SSE through W to N. While the morphology is reminiscent of a barrow, the monument could equally be a ringfort defined by a scarp and fosse. From the size of the monument, it could also be ecclesiastical in character; note the td. name.
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
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.