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Promontory fort - coastal

Westquarter, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - coastal, Westquarter, 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
Westquarter
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Doonmore
Latest-edition OS map
Doonmore (Site of)
Coordinates
53.61965, -10.25682
SMR number
GA009D024----

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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 headland, flanked by sheer cliffs, at SW end of Inishbofin. Dún Mór, as it is known locally, is a roughly rectangular area (110m by 60m) rising towards W. Defined on landward (E) side by a curving drystone wall (Wth 3-4m, H 0.95m) which peters out towards N. Evidently much collapsed/destroyed since Westropp's time; he described it as being well built and double-faced, 0.9m to 1.5m in height and 3.05m to 3.95m in width. Some 9.75m from S end of the wall was a well-defined gate (Wth 1.9m), of which no trace now survives. Outside and downslope from the wall is a natural, though fosse-like, feature running across the neck of the promontory. Apart from 'an oblong patch of stones', still visible c. 20m inside the wall, the interior is featureless. (Westropp 1911, 60-2; 1914, 331-2)

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.

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