Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Inishshark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishshark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dooneennapisha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dooneenapisha
- Coordinates
- 53.60820, -10.26296
- SMR number
- GA009D010----
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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
Some 30m offshore at E end of Inishshark. Known locally as Dúinín, it consists of a long narrow promontory, now an island (55m by 10m), once joined to mainland at its S end. Most of the earthworks appear to have been destroyed but traces of a bank (L >9m, Wth 4.5m) and external fosse (Wth c. 4.5m) are visible at extreme S end of the island. Remnants of a low bank (L >24m, Wth 1.1m, H 0.6m) are also visible along W edge (info. M. Casey). Not visited. (Westropp 1914, 333)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.