Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ummeracly West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ummeracly West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cnocannagun
- Coordinates
- 53.60660, -8.92989
- SMR number
- GA016-131----
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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 a level area of recently reclaimed pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an oval enclosure (c. 35m by c. 25m) with a small hollow at its SE end. What is visible is a subcircular grassy earthen platform (E-W 19.5m, N-S 16.5m) up to 2m in height. Slight traces of a bank are visible on the summit from E to ESE. The hollow shown on OS 6-inch map appears to have been a shallow quarry pit.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.