Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Mullaghglass, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghglass
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59721, -9.93221
- SMR number
- GA010-041----
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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 the jagged cliffs c. 1.5km W of Lettergesh beach. A small peninsula (N-S c. 26m), immediately to E of the stream marked 'Oweynalissa' on OS 6-inch maps, is known locally as 'Lios'. At its landward end it is enclosed by a curving earthen bank (H 1.5-0.75m) with a narrow entrance (Wth 0.6m) about one third of the way along it (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.