Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tooreen (ballynahinch By., Ballynakill Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (ballynahinch By., Ballynakill Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55379, -10.03788
- SMR number
- GA022-075----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a promontory jutting into E end of Ballynakill Lough. Poorly preserved rectangular enclosure (L 20.6m, Wth 17.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone on W and S, and by a cliff face on N and E. A rectangular grassed-over stone structure (L 7m, Wth 6.5m) abuts the outer face of the bank at E; possibly the remains of a house (Kinahan 1871, 351).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.