Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Inishshark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishshark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60868, -10.28959
- SMR number
- GA009C001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At SW end of Inishshark. A substantial earthen bank running in roughly a straight line from Aill na nUibheacha cove on NW shore of the island to Fó Duilisc cove on SE, a distance of c. 460m. This cuts off the whole SW end of the island. Consists of a drystone-revetted earthen bank (Wth c. 4m) topped by a later stone wall. There are intermittent traces of possible huts (GA009C001001-) set into the thickness of the bank and of a fosse on SW side. The wall may be of 19th-C origin but the bank is probably ancient and may possibly be the rampart of a promontory fort (pers. comm. M. Gibbons). A field system (GA009C002----) lies to SW of the bank.
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Poundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.