Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockatee East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatee East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathcoll
- Coordinates
- 53.62360, -8.75934
- SMR number
- GA017-128----
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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 summit of a hillock in pastureland overlooking bogland to SW. Poorly preserved almost circular enclosure (E-W 32.5m, N-S 31.5m) defined by a scarp. A field boundary overlies the monument from N to NE. A small circular earthen mound (D 2.8m) occupies the interior. It is believed to be the grave of 'King Turlouch' (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 267). Dunmore Castle (GA017-069----) lies c. 250m to E. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 65; Knox 1918, 90)
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.