Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryinver
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58554, -9.98538
- SMR number
- GA010-006----
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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
On NW and N slopes of the ridge on which a stone row (GA010-003----) and prehistoric enclosure (GA010-005----) are situated. A pre-bog wall is traceable for c. 80m running WNW-ESE across the ridge summit, passing roughly at right angles through the centre of the stone row. A second stretch of wall is also traceable c. 100m to N of the enclosure, curving across the brow of the ridge from W through N to E. It disappears into uncut bog at either end. Both these walls have been the subject of palaeobotanical study and samples from directly beneath them have produced 14C determinations of 2370 ± 60 BP and 2390 ± 90 BP respectively. (Molloy and O'Connell 1988; Gibbons and Higgins 1988a)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 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.