Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - prehistoric
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
- 53.61084, -10.19161
- SMR number
- GA009D044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SE end of Inishbofin, on a high level terrace on the S-facing slope of Knock Hill. Recorded by Mr. M. Gibbons, this circular house site (diam. 10m) is defined by a stone wall that is covered with a thin mantle of peat. A well-defined entrance gap is visible at E. The enclosing wall incorporates a number of large boulders in its make-up and possibly some underlying rock outcrop at S. A long N-S running field wall is visible to the W of the house and another similar wall runs downslope from it to the SE. The house is clearly visible on current aerial imagery - see OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013. Another similar house site (see GA009D045----) lies c. 300m to the SW.
The following image was provided by M. Gibbons - GA009D044----.docx.pdf
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by M. Gibbons
Date of upload: 24 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.