Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryinver
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58470, -9.98653
- SMR number
- GA010-005----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In cutaway bog at N end of a prominent ridge. Circular pre-bog enclosure (D 28m) in poor condition defined by a low earthen bank with traces of a possible internal fosse. A gap in the bank at ESE appears modern. Regarded by Gibbons and Higgins (1988d, 66) as 'a henge-like structure', it is probably best described as an embanked enclosure (pers. comm. J. Waddell). The ridge summit is also occupied by a pre-bog field system (GA010-006----) and a stone row (GA010-003----).
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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.