Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knock (Inishbofin Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock (Inishbofin Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61007, -10.21450
- SMR number
- GA009D037----
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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
Discovered while field-walking in the aftermath of the January 2014 storms (pers. comm. M. Gibbons). In a small bay immediately E of Cromwell’s Barrack (GA009D-023----). A very poorly preserved structure comprising two lengths of partially displaced stone walling (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) defining a 4m long arc of the W sector and a 3.5m long arc of the E sector of a possible circular hut (int. diam 3.2m). The ruins of a possible 17th-century building (GA009D-036----) lie 20 m to the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 14 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Beaconunder 1 mi
- Beaconunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.