Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carrowntryla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowntryla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.59282, -8.73229
- SMR number
- GA017-049----
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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 flat poorly drained grazing land. Known locally as 'Race Park Fort' (Neary 1914, 116, no. 87), it consists of a large oval enclosure (E-W 71m, N-S 56m), in fair condition, defined by a narrow bank and shallow external fosse. Traces of an internal fosse are also visible from N to E. A field boundary cuts across the monument at NW and SW. Neary (ibid.) considered that it 'may have been a pinfold'.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.