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Enclosure

Inishshark, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Inishshark, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Inishshark
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60556, -10.26388
SMR number
GA009D009----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a prominent hummock close to shore at SE end of island. On inspection in August 1984, this rectangular enclosure (13.8m E-W; 13.3m N-S) was defined by a ruinous double-faced drystone wall (Wth 0.75m; max. H 0.3m) with an entrance (Wth 0.7m), flanked by two uprights, at the mid-point along its S wall. The interior was uneven and sloped to the SSW. A flag-revetted stone wall (Wth 0.5m; H c. 0.25m) with a rubble core, running N-S roughly through its centre, may have marked an internal division. A small subcircular annexe (D c. 2.4m) adjoined it at SW where there were also traces of a collapsed stone bank running S to the cliff edge (SMR file). The enclosure has since been part of an on-going archaeological research project on the island, which is investigating whether this could be a burial ground with a clochan at its SW corner (Kuijt et al. 2010, 60-63, 66-9). (Gosling 1993, 174, no. 987)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 30 March 2023

References

SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Kuijt I., Lash R., Gibbons M., Higgins J., Goodale N. and O'Neill, J. 2010 Reconsidering early medieval seascapes: new insights from Inis Airc, Co. Galway,Ireland. Journal of Irish Archaeology XIX, 51-70.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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