Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Prospect (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prospect (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.62519, -8.76034
- SMR number
- GA017-145----
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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 roadside 70m ENE of a similar monument (GA017-144----). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m). What is visible is a circular platform (D c. 11.6m), in fair condition, defined by a scarp (H 2m max. at NE). This is supplemented from S to W by traces of an external fosse and outer bank. The surface of the platform is uneven. Possibly a house, a landscape feature, or even a windmill mound. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 156)
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.