Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Killuney, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killuney
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61143, -8.70511
- SMR number
- GA017-119----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 top of a prominent hillock in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved circular earthwork (D 15m) cut by a road at E and W: no visible surface trace survives to S of the road. To N of it, traces of a fosse and outer bank are visible curving from NW through N to NE, around the base of the hillock. A separate bank runs off the outer bank at NE, following a slightly curved but roughly E-W axis. A CBG (GA017-119001-) is associated.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.