Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilnaslieve, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnaslieve
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59312, -8.81272
- SMR number
- GA017-163----
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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 pastureland to the NW of an esker ridge. This large subtriangular enclosure (c. 52m E-W; c. 50m N-S; c. 22m N-S at E end) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2014. A dried-up pond lies c. 45m to the SE.
The following image has been uploaded: GA017-163----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 11 March 2014.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.