Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Eskeromullacaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskeromullacaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61780, -8.58442
- SMR number
- GA018-014----
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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 ridge in undulating reclaimed pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a large circular enclosure. What survives is a degraded raised platform (NE-SW 47m) best preserved from SW through N to E. According to local information, four semicircular structures were in the interior; no visible surface trace survives.
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
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarry1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.