Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lehurick, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lehurick
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57656, -8.58206
- SMR number
- GA018-034----
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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 a SE-facing slope in pastureland; a large pond is incorporated into E part of the monument. Subcircular enclosure (N-S 43.5m, E-W 41m), in fair condition, defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. The inner bank is present at NE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The enclosing elements peter out at E at the edge of the pond. There is a causewayed entrance at S, and an enigmatic triangular-shaped pit outside the outer bank at NW. Though the morphology is that of a ringfort, the close association with the pond hints at a ceremonial/ritual function.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.