Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Turlough (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Turlough (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66251, -8.46182
- SMR number
- GA007-121----
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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 NW slope of a hill, 50m SW of a ringfort (GA007-120----) and immediately N of the county road. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. On 3rd ed. (1930), it also appears as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m) but is shown as being enclosed by a fosse (D c. 40m max.). No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.