Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Roscrea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscrea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54613, -9.98308
- SMR number
- GA023-028001-
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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 low hill overlooking the mouth of Abhainn an tSraithín. Thin slab of schist, rectangular in plan (H 1.63m) (GA023-028----). No visible trace survives of the faint 'rectangular enclosure [GA023-028001-], about 12ft. [3.65m] square' noted by Redington 'on the S side of this monument' (1914, 239-40). (Killanin 1954, 98)
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: 26 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.