Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Fawnmore, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fawnmore
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62606, -10.23153
- SMR number
- GA009B010----
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 rocky headland on indented N coast of Inishbofin. An irregular and uneven area (80m by 54m) flanked by deep chasms. Defined along SE side by a curving and much collapsed wall (Wth 2.6m, H >1m), the inner and outer drystone revetments of which survive intermittently. No clear trace of an entrance is visible. Immediately outside the wall are the remains of a circular hut (D 2.5m) (info. from M. Casey). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.