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Enclosure

Addergoole More, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Addergoole More, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Addergoole More
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.60398, -8.71549
SMR number
GA017-008003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On N-facing slope of a low hill overlooking the Sinking River. A large but poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 143m) (GA017-008001-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a markedly curving field boundary to NW of church (GA017-008002-): a section of it still survives as a curving earth and stone boundary (Wth 2m, H 1.3-2m) but it is similar in character to other field banks in the vicinity. A pond lies immediately outside it at W. Its line can also be traced from SE through S to SSW as a faint curving scarp. The interior is divided into two halves by a modern field wall running E-W, immediately to S of which is the church. This occupies a central position within the interior and also appears to have been encircled by an inner enclosure (E-W 41m) (GA017-008003-). Traces of this survive, to S of the subdividing wall, as a slightly raised platform defined by a curving scarp/wall from SE through S to SW. At SE, traces of a stone wall (Wth 1m, H 0.5m) survive, consisting of large limestone flags revetting a rubble core. Within the enclosure and immediately to S of the church is a CBG (GA017-008004-).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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